Kubrick is a machine, a mutant, a Martian. He has no human feeling whatsoever. But it's great when the machine films other machines, as in 2001.

When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch.

For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave.

Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.

And the fact that I see so many films really seems to amaze certain people.

I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to.

True heroes and ideas never fall in the final sense of the word. They can only encounter temporary setbacks in their difficult journey to progress and success,

The more we know about the former world, the better we’ll understand what happened when it fell.

The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappinessdoes not unite people, but separates them.

It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period.

Maybe this is just me, but as time goes by, I'm more bewildered by modernity. It gets more unfathomable with every passing year.

Because audiences all over the world can see an independent film almost anywhere and anytime, these new distribution outlets have opened a door that is revolutionizing the movie-going experience.

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

Keep fear out of your child's mind, as you would keep poison out of his body; for fear is the deadliest of mental poisons.

I think we all have the germ of every other person inside of us.

But when I came, alas, to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth every day.