"Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this."

"It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical."

"I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special."

"My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that."

"Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs."

"Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work."

"What I tried to do is deliver movies that have worked for me more than once."