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Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not.

Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.

I don't fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.

The subject of death is taboo. We feel, perhaps only subconsciously, that to be in contact with death in any way, even indirectly, somehow confronts us with the prospect of our own deaths, draws our own deaths closer and makes them more real and thinkable.

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly. Maybe I'm drawn to it as a story element.

I've worked very hard to become comfortable with how death works and why it happens. I now know that death isn't out to get me.