If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.

I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.

I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those.

I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks.

I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem.

A dolly move is a moral commitment.

A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.

As a loyal believer in the Auteur Theory I first felt editing was but the logical consequence of the way in which one shoots. But, what I learned is that it is actually another writing.

Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema.

I remember being young in the 1960s. We had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.

Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.

Some situations are just like bad dreams, they're only unbearable while we're giving them our full attention.

A comfortable and easy life leaves no room for growth. We must therefore embrace our hardships and the lessons they bring.

I always ignore money.

The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.

I always like to think I'm having a dinner party, and I'm the host, and the audience are my guests.

Never dip lower than you can dip.

I can't afford to be a member of a golf course.

The blog is certainly another tool for writers out there to break their way in. But being a blogger does not make you a great writer.

All over the world, people want to know what kind of people Texans are, and I explain that Texans are America's ideal Americans.

I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show.