I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.

There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.

After 'The Empire Strikes Back,' I got to make big films that I didn't care about, 'Never Say Never Again' and 'RoboCop 2,' and then I got too old.

Film is a window to the real world but a lie that makes you believe the unbelievable.

Nobody can be happy. You could have moments of happiness, moments of joy. But life is very difficult. Unless you're a total idiot. Then you can be happy.

I want films to haunt an audience, to give them something to remember and be able to talk about.

I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn't matter to me.

I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.

Acceptance is to love and embrace everything that we find within ourselves like a mother embraces her child.

Trust Begins In TRUth, even if the Truth is about how you broke my trust.

Another woman told Constant what it was the crowd felt it had a right to. 'We have a right to know what's going on!' she cried.

I'm a Catholic of the New Testament, I'm not a Catholic of the hierarchy.

I believe friends enclose us, like a pair of parentheses. Each one knows us differently, each sustains us in a different way.

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing

The establishment? Well, guess what? Donald Trump now is the establishment. His primary opponents, many of them are interviewing for White House gigs.

The angels love us. And it's their assignment. They are direct, pure emissaries for God.

Truth is congenial to man. Moral truth is then most consummate when, like beauty, it commends itself without argument. The righteous not only does right, but loves to do right.

Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.