"Ensure that your life stays in flux."

“There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.”

“A good decorator not only plans and schemes, but he also knows how the job is done.”

“All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.”

Source : Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “The Red Lamp”, p.35, Overamstel Uitgevers

“If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.”

Source : Akira Kurosawa, Bert Cardullo (2008). “Akira Kurosawa: Interviews”, p.184, Univ. Press of Mississippi

“There's got to be something that you can do that will not just be a nice honor to the play, or the book, or the movie you're dealing with, but some aspect that maybe can explore something that the play couldn't do.”

“I get paid by the year, and I try to earn my money.”

“I like to keep my budgets at a certain price when I work for someone else, and even more so now that I'm working for myself, and use new technologies to deliver films that look like they have high production levels.”

“While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.”