I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Always stay open to surprise.

Music and film are inseparable. They always have been and always will be.

Some people will try to condemn you to the prison of their bullshit. They tell you they want a soulmate, but they're actually creating a cellmate.

There's one way to do showbiz, if you want to do it perfectly, you have to be disciplined and you have to be ready to work really hard.

You can't change the past but you can change everything else. Take your first step toward making a significant change in your life, today.

Look at my body. Does it look like I sue steroids?

What girl could fail to make a conquest who collapsed at a man's feet in the moonlight?

My vulnerability is thinking that I am not worth people's time or space at times.

Tempo is the glue that sticks all elements of the golf swing together.

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.

I think that's the fascinating thing that exists now. This contrasts with a celebrity art and celebrity music culture.

People are terrible. They do terrible things to each other, they hurt each other, they lie, they're vain, they're shallow, they're violent ... but they're all we have.