I can't do a million things anymore like I could when I was younger.

I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s.

Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.

Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.

My advice is, don't spend money on therapy. Spend it in a record store.

Every photo, every 'ONCE' in time is also the beginning of a story starting 'once upon a time...' Every photo is the first frame of a movie.

Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed.

The more opinions you have, the less you see.

I think sometimes you have to just imagine something that looks pretty impossible. By imagining something that is impossible, automatically you wish you could make it possible.

For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.

Photographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories.

Beauty doesn't matter because in the end, we all lose our looks and all we have is our heart.

I don’t know what it is that I’m doing, but I’m really enjoying myself. And I’m free to do it as much as I want.

The next big thing is the one that makes the last big thing usable.

There's always a project around, but you have to pick and choose.

It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another.

Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees.

I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.

Wizards don't all look alike.

I love this country because I didn't always have it. Freedom, food, water that is clean, Constitution - these are not things I take for granted.

I also have this kind of fascination with Don Quixote, kind of like wanting something you're not going to get. I like that a lot.