I'm an anxious person. What I like best is to smoke cigarettes and listen to music. A perfect day for me is a day with coffee, cigarettes, and music, to quote Jim Jarmusch.

Filmmaking is to me very similar to being in a café somewhere in Paris and looking at the people walking by.

I always scout locations first. The apartments, the railway tracks, the café, the canal - I figure out the geography of the film.

Freedom is not having a big budget.

I don't think I make genre movies. There is a certain type of violence in my films but I think I have my own genre because I made it happen like that.

Start with scout locations first.

My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But he was a free spirit, a great grandfather.

'White Material' is about courage and craziness.

Joy, humor, and laughter should be part of everyone's spiritual life. They are gifts from God and help us enjoy creation.

As the new Adam, it might be said, his final act was to cast the Apple of Knowledge into the deep blue sea.

Throughout history, Hanukkah was a relatively minor festival, but it's become very popular in America due to its proximity to Christmas.

The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.

In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.

To me, strange is just another way of saying unusual. And unusual is just another way of saying special

Wrath clapped his brother on the shoulder. On the whole, though, the SOB was a total keeper. “Forgiven, forgotten.” “Feel free to hammer me anytime.” “Believe me, I do.

I expect the best and with God's help will attain the best.

I was never Vice Chair of the Troops Out Movement.

The Paralympic movement has given me a lifetime of joy and accomplishment but really, the pleasure has been all mine. I've loved every single moment and continue to be involved.