The historian’s task is to bring the dead to life.

The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set as before the blank page.

"We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game."

The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission.