I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.

Coppola has problems getting financing, so why should I not have problems getting financing.

The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.

I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.

Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.

I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way.

I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.

The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.

I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.

They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em.

I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example...

In an infinite Universe anything can happen, " said Ford, "Even survival. Strange but true.

A bullet leaves evidence that a mortar doesn't.

It felt good to be the one holding the blade

A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.

The crucial fact to realize about all the powerful machinery of the Corporate State - its laws, structure, political system - is that it possesses no mind.

It is the stillness that will save and transform the world.

Courage is an angel which makes the difference between a good life and a great life.

Knowledge is finite. Wonder is infinite.

I smoked pot and that was something that I did when I was in college. It was something that I’m not proud of, but I did.