Filmmakers don't work for posterity. We create with celluloid and chemical pigments that don't last very long. They fade away. In 200 years there will be nothing left of our work but dust.

The longer I live, the less I trust ideas, the more I trust emotions.

It is only when memory is filtered through imagination that the films we make will have real depth.

You see the world much better through a camera.

Memory is not frozen, it's very much alive, it moves, it changes.

You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.

When you are working on a script, the story itself is not difficult. You say this would happen and then this, resulting perhaps in this. And the dialogue you make as true as you can.

If you have someone on the set for the hair, why would you not have someone for the words?

I think predictability has become the rule and I'm completely the opposite -- I like spectators to be disturbed.

Well, Fellini... there is always Fellini.

Wherever you go, wherever you stay - there is eternity.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.

Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.

Tea-baggers love the truth. They just hate facts.

As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.

Wealthy Americans who benefit hugely from a system rigged in their favor react with hysteria to anyone who points out just how rigged the system is.

The most attractive quality of all is dignity.

We become our own enemy when we are thrown out of balance by anger, hatred, grief, or any other intense emotion. We are for the time being obsessed by something alien.

I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word.