Everything's changing so fast that it's sometimes hard to keep up.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

I used to take photographs just to remember people.

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.

I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.

Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.

I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.

The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.

Sometimes getting upset with yourself is necessary when you face the truth.

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

You mustn't bury yourself alive, forget to rise up, or bind yourself to the dust in melancholy surrender.

I remember three years ago looking into the entrance pool of Julia’s stately domus and finding I was beautiful.

Yes, the upper reaches of society are still dominated by men.

Christianity at any given time is strong or weak depending upon her concept of God.

We only make peace with our enemies. That's why it's called making peace.

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.

Touch me again, and I’ll end you… in a non-criminal way.

I'm conservative. I was raised conservative, and that's the way I will vote.

It is my unmistakable belief that not a blade of grass moves but by the divine will.

I would never attack somebody only because they belong to a different party.