如果你没有失败，说明你不够努力。

Every detail counts because God is in the details.

The desire for recognition, the thymotic part of the soul, is the most political part of the human personality because it is what drives people to want to be recognized as superior to others.

It is not the voice that commands the story; it is the ear.

每一部电影都是一次旅程，不仅对角色如此，对观众也是如此。

I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, they’re actually trying to find out, ‘Is he as crazy as I am?’ I don’t need that question answered.