The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made with more ambition often just get drowned out by the noise.
Movies are a way to escape the reality of everyday life.
The best movies have a wonderful balance between the predictable and the unpredictable.
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
The magic of cinema lies in the way it allows you to see the world through someone else's eyes.
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
Movies are the dreams of the mass culture.
Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.
You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
In feature films, the director is God; in documentary films, God is the director.
I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
The first time I looked at a movie camera, I was 16 years old, and I wanted to become a great director.
Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.