Having no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness.

I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.

I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those.

I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks.

If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.

I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem.

A dolly move is a moral commitment.

A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.

As a loyal believer in the Auteur Theory I first felt editing was but the logical consequence of the way in which one shoots. But, what I learned is that it is actually another writing.

Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema.

I remember being young in the 1960s. We had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.

The world knows nothing of you. That is my gift to you. You are no one.

Madness breeds madness.

I was wired to be intense. I don't think that's ever going to change.

That is the limit of IMDb. You can get into any IMDb page and hack stuff.

I don't think I've ever been as scared in my life as I was to be extraordinarily honest with my kids.

Songs lay a foundation of who I am going to be forever.

Johnny Vassilaros is the man who has created the finest cup of coffee ever served in the city of New York.

It is the rule of law alone which hinders the rulers from turning themselves into the worst gangsters.

I have always kept ducks, even as a child, and the colours of their plumage, in particular the dark green and snow white, seemed to me the only possible answer to the questions that are on my mind.

If you would find gold, you must search where gold is.