"One of the most important things in life is to be able to laugh at yourself."

"The very meaning of life is that it is a struggle. We are put on earth to struggle, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

"However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light."

"I think the best plots are the ones that are not too obvious, that are sort of hidden in the subtext, so that you have to think about them a bit."

"I don't believe in happy endings. I believe in realistic endings, and sometimes realism is not happy."