As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films.

What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?

If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.

I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.

You just never know when you're living in a golden age.

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.

A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.

I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.

If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.

Coal that bears that pressure meets a diamond.

It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.

Researchers warn us against walking out on married life without a dang good reason.

Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.

When it comes to success. Rent is due everyday

Oh, do the Overlords of Life and Death always provide some obstacle to prevent what all of us have known in youth was possible from ever coming true?

I don't understand how people can take a gentle, loving life and treat it with such cruelty.

Man seeks answers from afar Man has reached the moon reaching mars and distant planets but has not even gone into the silence of his being