Filmmaking is a collaborative art, but the director must be the guiding force.

An artist’s job is to disturb the peace.

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

It is only through enforced standardization of methods, enforced adoption of the best implements and working conditions, and enforced cooperation that this faster work can be assured.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then and then only, does it come into existence.