I want all of my films to belong to me.

What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?

If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.

I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.

You just never know when you're living in a golden age.

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.

A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.

I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.

If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.

You areBut why?

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.

I've constantly done my best to get the best material I can get with the best directors I can get to direct me.

All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.

All of my peers died of AIDS, and I have no one to celebrate my past or my journey, or to help me pass down stories to the next generation. We lost an entire generation of storytellers with HIV.

I think that everything changes when it goes through the Mac; it's cheap. I think people then don't pay too much importance to the take, if you can do 40 takes.

I learn a lot; what I learn cannot be expressed in words.

People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

I used to go with solid blue, but recently I've found that a mix of red and green is a better fit for my personality.

Funk is the unending cycle of life. It's the ultimate concept—wherever your imagination will take it.