Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
Harold Bloom weeps for me.
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
For the will and not the gift makes the giver.
Obedience is the opener of eyes.
The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
When a language dies, a possible world dies with it.
For whoever is lonely there is a tavern.
Well I think effects are tools.
I was directing before I knew it was called that.
There are no rules in live television.
I'm not interested in observed reality.
Doubt makes a man decent.
I was always influenced by language.
The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.
For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.
Writing is the thing that props me up.
Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
One if by land, two if by sea.
Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear
Any time gone by was better.
