Ah, in work, love and the movies, everything is a fight.

When you make many films with the same actors you can develop a special understanding with them. I love working with people I know and that I trust.

The wonderful thing about films is how they can be understood by so many different people on so many different levels.

To love is to be engaged is to work is to be interested is to create.

When you can use dirty words in every situation with everyone, that's a real big liberation.

Some feminists have this party-line attitude, and they can be very extremist. The most enlightened characters in my film are women.

Knowledge, understanding, and wisdom is naught to the man who is incapable of applying it.

If we can't turn the world around we can at least bolster the victims.

Even the smallest daily chore can be humanized with the harmony of culture.

I am an amateur and I intend to stay that way for the rest of my life.

I'd like to do more collaborations because collaboration creates different viewpoints.

Fear is a survival tool not a handicap.

And my little sister died when she was 16.

We can never know the origins of the universe. The deepest secrets are the ones that keep themselves.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual?