I don't put on my best clothes to make a film, my Sunday best.

I'm really so singular, I am only able to work on one thing at a time. I really am.

I don't feel, 'I've made a great film'; I feel I've made what I set out to make.

I’ve always been better at informing the audience through images than through words, but I took on a script that was so dialogue intensive, that the words had to do all the informing.

You have to understand where the camera needs to me. There were times where you were suddenly aware where the cameras were, then you were in a different place and it didn't feel like the same movie.

I've never been happy doing stock work; I've never been happy thinking that I haven't changed something.

I'm Jewish. Went to a Jewish school.

I'm not the kind of filmmaker who's going to go from one thing to the next. I often wish I was that filmmaker, but I'm just not.

Freedom's just another word for "nothing left to lose".

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it's not a priority in the agendas of many leaders.

Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him.

Love of money is the mother-city (metropolis) of all evils.

All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.

Lao-tze's Taoism is the exhibition of a way or method of living which men should cultivate as the highest and purest development of their nature.

The moment of twilight is simply beautiful.

I do love competence in a man.

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.