I haven't made a movie for a while, but I've watched a lot. It's my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work.

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.

Why get bitter towards those who don't believe in your dreams, when they don't even believe in theirs?

Grace does not overlook sin, it empowers righteousness!

Quality is the one absolutely necessary ingredient of all the most successful companies in the world.

One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.

The best ideas and the most useful and ground-breaking are often, though not always, in one sense, very simple ideas.

The more powerless people are, the longer they are kept waiting.

I draw whatever hits me.

I set myself some specific goals, but the key one is just getting myself into as good a shape as possible for one day this year: the Olympic marathon.

Everything good in there, T? Niko quipped. You need backup or anything? Bag of marshmallows to roast over that little campfire you just started?

I would love to find myself in a position where I have to decide, "Gosh, do I want to be on a series?"