Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.

I thank Henry James for the scene in the hotel room, that I stole from Portrait Of A Lady… This particular scene is the most beautiful scene ever written.

I care about cinema even though I haven't made many films.

I'm not a cineaste. I've made so few films. Sometimes it feels each one is the last one or the first one.

I don't work with people who ask me questions.

It's incredible how much cinema can do. We forget.

Every film starts with two or three images. Then I try to edit these images.

The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not.

My films start with images, a few images and a few feelings, and I try to edit them together to see the correspondence between these images and these feelings.

Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.

I'm not only my films, but I'm pretty much my films.

Being a cat means beautiful, agile, innocent, brave, curious and trust also honorable respect for as much as not so doing bribery.

Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.

When you're in a play, you never really have a sense of what an audience is experiencing. The experience of doing a play is so different from the experience of seeing it.

If you are working, almost like with layers of the Grand Canyon, there's history within those layers.

To say it is not practical, one has to also admit that integration is not practical.

In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like.

Whatever the challenge was, however unattainable the goal may have seemed, I never let anyone talk me out of believing in myself.

The purpose of the guru is not to weaken your will. It is to teach you secrets of developing your inner power, until you can stand unshaken amidst the crash of breaking worlds.

Do your best and then relax.

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.