“Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.”

“You should spend more time reading the Good Book and less reading all those novels. What are you going to tell the Lord on Judgement Day when He asks you why you didn't read your bible? Hmm?"I said. To myself.”

“When you read the sacred Scriptures, or any other book, never think how you read, but what you read.”

“Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read… if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.”

“You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read…”

“Imagine having a mother who worries that you read too much. The question is, what is it that's supposed to happen to people who read too much? How can you tell when someone's crossed the line.”

“I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating than reading yourself as fact.”

“What was the use of writing if someone didn't read what you have to say?”

“I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once?”

“You are what you read”