The historian’s task is to understand the past, the novelist’s to make it live.

The only way to get better is to compete against the best.

The stranger is close to us, insofar as we feel between him and ourselves common features of a national, social, occupational, or generally human, nature. He is far from us, insofar as these common features extend beyond him or us, and connect us only because they connect a great many people.

I don’t do things for the money. I do them because I love them.

真正的艺术家通过揭示神秘真相来帮助世界。

每部电影都是其制作过程的纪录片。