A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.

When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting.

The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man.

The foundation of all civilization is loitering.

The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.

A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.

Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?

The only things that are important in life are the things you remember.

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.

I am against great themes and great subjects... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact.

There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.

Spirituality is a magnet, and the magnet affects iron, not the wood or stone. Similarly, faith and devotion are iron, who has that, spirituality touches the believer, not an unbeliever.

Education entails the development of body and mind towards getting whatever you want without violating the rights of others.

I understood 'microaggressions' to mean 'little bullshit acts of racism.

It takes courage to listen to your inner knowing … But once you hear that knowing, making a decision becomes fairly easy.

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else.

To extract the fullest flavor of our drinking house, we needed to spend serious evening time there, slowly coming to know the bartender and the regulars, their joys and sorrows.

I hate being away, but I understand that for me, that's where the work, the stories are.

When cutting staff at the Pentagon, don't eliminate the thin layer that assures civilian control.

Everything I got, I'm willing to sacrifice

If your eyes weren't open, you wouldn't know the difference between dreaming and waking.