I'm Happy - At Times - Making

One Does Not Have To Make Frank Capra Movies To Like People.

The World's Religions, For All Their Parochialism, Did Supply A Kind Of Consolation For This Great Ache. This Shattering Recognition Of Our Mortality Is At The Root Of Far More Mental Illness Than I Suspect Even Psychiatrists Are Aware.

You Have Not Yet Learned That In This Life You Have To Be Like Everyone Else: The Perfect Mediocrity--no Better, No Worse. Individuality Is A Monster And It Must Be Strangled In Its Cradle To Make Our Friends Feel Comfortable.

It's A Passion When You're Doing It For Other People And You're Doing It For The People Around You Making The Film And The People Who Are Going To See The Film, And The Giving. When You Start Thinking About You Doing It For Some Sort Of Self-gain, Then I Think It Becomes An Obsession. It Becomes A Negative Experience.

The Most Terrifying Fact About The Universe Is Not That It Is Hostile But That It Is Indifferent, But If We Can Come To Terms With This Indifference, Then Our Existence As A Species Can Have Genuine Meaning. However Vast The Darkness, We Must Supply Our Own Light.