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Making films is sort of like you’re pulling off a magic trick. It’s sort of like an illusion. It’s not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you’re wearing to the make-up, to the light.

I’ve always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that.

Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The “Ode on a Grecian Urn” is worth any number of old ladies.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best – make it all up – but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it’s any good or not is what is known as The Artist’s Reward.

Every great inspiration is but an experiment.

It’s much easier to write when you’re sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.