Before writing, I start with a series of questions, specific things I need to know before I can write the book... That list grows and changes as I do….
The best writing advice I ever got was "Keep moving forward, don't retreat into rewrites." The worst came from a book that said "Writing fiction is l….
My work stops at publication. If the books don't contain in themselves their reasons for being - questions and answers - it means I was wrong to have….
Movies were much better in the days when I was doing them..
Some things that are true are not very useful..
I would rather be loved by somebody who respected me..
The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you..
Eroticism cannot be entirely revealed without poetry..
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body..
I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier..
I've spent my life supporting myself..
Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one... ...I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I was little I've liked Russ….
For me a book has always been a chance to reach out and connect to someone and not be alone..
What (Stephen) Hawking says in his book The Grand Design is the universe exists because it needed to exist, and because it needed to exist, it theref….
Hersesy is denying the word of God, and the word of God is much more reliably expressed in the natural world as it’s revealed through reason and scie….
I wouldn't go back and change anything..
What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book..
It had better be. It doesn't do much when it's soft..
I am learning to live, and to see beauty in everything..
We all have to meet our match sometime or other..
You never know what you're in for when you take a role. When you're reading the script, you're in some café in New York and you're loving life and it….