[A movie] should start with an earthquake and build to a climax.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.

Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible.

I think it's impossible to do Tolkien. It's impossible to get the brilliance of what he wrote about -- just the medium, the book, the novel gives you other are…

He [Welles] was an onlooker at the clumsy, poignant suicide of 'The Man on the Ledge,' which took place in New York in 1938, when a boy perched for fourteen ho…

Most scripts are bad. I read a lot of them. 'Brick' was a good script just to read. It was like, 'Oh my God, these words feel so good in my mouth.' A lot of mo…