I've never been happy doing stock work; I've never been happy thinking that I haven't changed something.

I'm really so singular, I am only able to work on one thing at a time. I really am.

I don't feel, 'I've made a great film'; I feel I've made what I set out to make.

I’ve always been better at informing the audience through images than through words, but I took on a script that was so dialogue intensive, that the words had to do all the informing.

You have to understand where the camera needs to me. There were times where you were suddenly aware where the cameras were, then you were in a different place and it didn't feel like the same movie.

I'm Jewish. Went to a Jewish school.

I don't put on my best clothes to make a film, my Sunday best.

I'm not the kind of filmmaker who's going to go from one thing to the next. I often wish I was that filmmaker, but I'm just not.

Fire wants to burn Water wants to flow Air wants to rise Earth wants to bindChaos wants to devourCal wants to live

It is a difficult task Oh citizens to make speeches to the belly which has no ears.

I want to be able to look my daughter's teacher in the eye and say, 'Your pension will be there.' I need to know that her pension will match up with a promise we can keep.

Cast parties are a lot of fun!

Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.

Before you leave, the fortune teller reminds you that the future is never set in stone.

Evaluations, in essence, are... ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.

Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror.

If you are in a hurry to get money, you will be in a hurry to spend it. Anything that starts dubiously will surely end dubiously.

Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.