If I'm not complaining, I'm not having a good time, hah hah!

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.

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

Every life is many days day after day. We walk through ourselves meeting robbers ghosts giants old men young men wives widows brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.

The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter

Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God.

Most of the history is a divine work of fiction.

You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.

I'm not homophobic. I'm not scared of my house.

You never want to be in a place where an employee has vested 3 out of the 4 years of stock and they start thinking about leaving.

I don't write songs, songs write me.

Here I am and there is my body dancing on glass.

But sooner or later, no matter who you are, life uses everyone as its whipping boy.