"Sobriety and health is the greatest thing."

"Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive."

"In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations."

"Movies are like magic tricks."

"The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience."

"It is a enduring truth that fear will knock at every door; only those with resolved hearts refuse to let it enter."

"Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it."

"Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all."