I think it's very boring for a director to always do the same kind of movies.

You need to feed yourself with emotions and life or youll become empty.

In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.

Everything goes by so fast that if you want to be a part of it, you need to go that fast. But because you go that fast, you don't lead the life you should lead.

You have to draw on your unconscious when you make a film - you can't worry about whether it's costing a lot of money.

I spent all my youth with horses.

Directing remains very psychological, and it takes a lot of time and reflection. When you're an actor, it takes less time, and you can express yourself physically.

I would rather do really good French films than 'American Pie.'

I'm an absolute fan of 1970s New York in films like 'Mean Streets' and 'Dog Day Afternoon.

Music is one of the important things for me in cinema.

It's physically and psychologically exhausting to make a film.

Every cell in my body was telling me that he was my happily ever after.

Don't be so defensive and afraid to be proven wrong that you miss the opportunity to learn from your mistakes.

I would much prefer to enlarge your life by giving you the gift of my life, rather than gifting your life to material obesity with frivolous trinkets.

The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.

To fly or not to fly, that's the question.

People only accept change when they are faced with necessity, and only recognize necessity when a crisis is upon them.

Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation.

Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.

I love to hate [Wall Street] it, and I like it. I love the fact that I hate it and like it at the same time. Plus, Gordon Gekko is now [Donald] Trump, isn't he?

Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.