Take the clapper and become the alarm that the world so desperately needs.

Use filmmaking for a greater purpose, than to just entertain some drowsy minds. Wake the whole world up with your movies. It has been sleeping for long. Its eternal sleep has become its darkest nemesis. Now is the time to wake it up.

The art of filmmaking is the most influential form of art that has ever existed throughout the history of human artistic endeavors.

Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness.

Use filmmaking to eliminate racism – use to it terminate misogyny – use it to destroy homophobia and all other primitiveness.

Make movies my friend – make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul.

Filmmaking has the power to fortify the feeble, unify the divided, raise the abandoned and inspire the ignorant.

Movies are moments.

What you try to become is a bringer of magic, for magic and the truth are closely allied and movies are sheer magic ... when they work, it's, well, it's glorious.

A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano-playing in my living room has to the book I'm reading.

Hollywood - it's either people who are unhappy or soon will be.

Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.

Screenwriting is an opportunity to fly first class, be treated like a celebrity, sit around the pool and be betrayed.

If you can tune into the fantasy life of an eleven-year-old girl, you can make a fortune in the film business.

If I could change one thing about this industry, I would skip the part where you have to demonstrate to people dumber than you that you are talented and worthy of their time and money.

There's a standard formula for success in the entertainment medium, and this is: 'Beat it to death if it succeeds.'

Not everyone who wants to make a film is crazy, but almost everyone who is crazy wants to make a film.

Film is a collaborative business: bend over.

They say the movies should be more like life. I think life should be more like the movies.