I like action films, not exclusively, but I like Samurai films. I like Westerns. Not so much war pictures, but a few. I like kinetic cinema.

What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?

If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.

I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.

You just never know when you're living in a golden age.

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.

A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.

I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.

If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.

No one has the power to shatter your dreams unless you give it to them.

At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire.

A libertarian is someone who graduated from thinking that there are problems with the state to realizing that the state is the problem.

Shun fear, it is the ague of the soul! a passion man created for himself--for sure that cramp of nature could not dwell in the warm realms of glory.

When what you’re doing doesn’t work for 50 years, it’s time to try something new.

We're going to support the men and women of law enforcement.

What you forget is that plants themselves want to live as much as you want them to. More.

After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence.

If two lives join, there is oft a scar. They are one and one, with a shadowy third; One near one is too far.

Don't just view me as an actor.