If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.

If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.

Everything is going to hell, but we should smile all the way.

A film should be like a rock in the shoe.

If anyone would like to hit me, they are perfectly welcome. I must warn you, though, that I might enjoy it. So maybe it's not the right kind of punishment.

Perhaps the only difference between me and other people is that Ive always demanded more from the sunset.

I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.

I am a man of very many anxieties but doing strange things with the camera is not one of them.

I think its a very strange question that I have to defend myself. I don’t feel that. You are all my guests, it’s not the other way around, that’s how I feel.

Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.

January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.

If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women.

Hence, in these times, untouch'd the pages lie, And slumber out their immortality.

Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be.

And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.

Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us? Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot.

Time is the product of changing realities, beings, existences.

However we pass Time, he passes still, Passing away whatever the pastime, And, whether we use him well or ill, Some day he gives us the slip for the last time.

I don't think I'm really so unique. If every black person looked at their life they would quickly discover that they have been influenced by every type of music prevalent in America.

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.