It's always interesting to play people different from yourself, it would be boring for me to play myself.

Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.

I have one life. I am a certain age. I'm married to one person. I have a certain number of children. I won't have another life other than that, but I do have many lives through the films.

I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.

Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.

One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.

One day you will tell me how to change what I cannot yet describe without my words swelling HUGE, vowels vanishing, tears washing ink away.

In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.

I'll only go if there's cake.~Tobias "Four

I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.

I don't quit. If someone quits on me, that's on them, but I'm not going to quit, especially if I say I'm gonna do something.

The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire.

I could still eat a cheeseburger if I wanted to. I just can't have them every day.

I think that if you walk through this life and I end up being a bad father, then it won't matter anything else I achieved in my life. It will all be irrelevant.

It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much.

Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship, Yet she sailed softly too: Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze - On me alone it blew.