I'm a control freak, so that's why I became a director.

It is a miracle that anything gets made. It's not for the faint of heart, at all. You could so easily get really depressed or really down about the whole thing, but you just don't.

I graduated from high school with the art award and I had made a ton of short films, but it was before DVDs with director commentary.

Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.

Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind ascribes to it.

It’s the people who don’t worry—those who never have any doubts that what they’re doing is good and right—they’re the ones that cause the problems.

So long as I know what's expected of me, I can manage.

Remember that the more you know, the less you fear.

I was raised and I was going to school in the suburbs of Paris. And so we, I didn't really go to the riots, to the barricade. I was too young, actually. Rather young.

The best come from the worst

We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.

All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.