“But I'm very happy to work within tight parameters, and when you know ...” — John Crowley Quote

“But I'm very happy to work within tight parameters, and when you know you have an actor for two days, and you have to get that work done in two days, that focuses the mind wonderfully.”

“Realistic novels simply pretend that the rules of their invented worlds are identical to the rules of actual life, but that's a ruse.”

“Men tend to try to struggle to be more rational and reduce things to simplicity more and are more impatient with ambiguity than women are.”

“Time, I think, is like walking backward away from something: say, from a kiss. First there is the kiss; then you step back, and the eyes fill up your vision, then the eyes are framed in the face as you step further away; the face then is part of a body, and then the body is framed in a doorway, then the doorway framed in the trees beside it. The path grows longer and the door smaller, the trees fill up your sight and the door is lost, then the path is lost in the woods and the woods lost in the hills. Yet somewhere in the center still is the kiss. That's what time is like.”

“Fundamentally, whether directing in the theatre or a film, you have to be a good storyteller, regardless of the form. The thing I had to work hardest at was thinking in shots.”

“The best thing to do is to study these asteroids so we know the range of parameters we would have to deal with and also to find them so we have as much time as possible to prepare.”

“Outside certain parameters, I don't consider myself that serious a person.”

“I get involved with projects based on three parameters - the script, the actors involved and the director.”

“I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.”

“I think you have to be so indulgent in creativity in that, if you're happy, it's successful. If it's then financially successful, which is different parameters, then you're also happy.”

“Children need parameters, know what's right or wrong.”