I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Always stay open to surprise.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

Who was to know what went on in a person's heart? A wise woman kept her own counsel.

Where to, Miss?To the stars.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.

Work is what horses die of

I just want to be happy, have kids, enjoy my life, help others and create some good work.

My philosophy is the thicker the wood the thicker the sound, the bigger the string the bigger the sound. My smallest string is a 14 gauge.

It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.

Music, not being made up of objects nor referring to objects, is intangible and ineffable; it can only be as it were inhaled by the spirit: the rest is silence.

If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?

I don't want to have a gravestone. I want to have all my friends burn me and then snort the ashes. I think that's the only way to go out.