I don't approve of censorship. I like the French theatre idea. Put on the play, and if the audience doesn't care for it, or feels offended by it, they rip up the seats.

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world.

I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.

A work of art doesn't dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself.

Hollywood has always been a cage...a cage to catch our dreams

A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.

Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place they're capable of anything.

What to do when inspiration doesn't come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes.

I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.

Once you have found the right shot to introduce the scene-written your first declarative sentence-then the rest flows. You've found the key to the whole scene.

I relieve myself from the rigours of directing by casting the movie correctly.

i am like the moon--sometimes, full.sometimes, black.sometimes, forever and ever alone.

You suffer alone. And rejoice with many.

If you aren't living in the reality of your dream, you surely haven't given it your possible best.

Perhaps a maiden's bashfulness is more A matron's lesson than our lips aver.

Unconditional Love is our birthright, not judgment or condemnation, and there's nothing we need to do to earn it. This is simply who and what we are.

The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug.

...the relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy.

I don't think I could ever settle down. I have known too much of the depths of life already, and I would prefer anything to an anticlimax.

There is plenty of people I'd love to collaborate with, would love to produce with, would love to write songs with.

I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.