Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place they're capable of anything.

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world.

I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.

A work of art doesn't dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself.

Hollywood has always been a cage...a cage to catch our dreams

A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.

What to do when inspiration doesn't come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes.

I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.

Once you have found the right shot to introduce the scene-written your first declarative sentence-then the rest flows. You've found the key to the whole scene.

I relieve myself from the rigours of directing by casting the movie correctly.

Critics have never been able to discover a unifying theme in my films. For thatmatter, neither have I.

You got off on the wrong foot. I merely watched you shove it into your mouth.

I'm so naive about finances. Once when my mother mentioned an amount and I realized I didn't understand, she had to explain: 'That's like three Mercedes.' Then I understood.

Only in America could you find a way to make a healthy buck, And still keep your attitude on self-destruct.

I love what I do. I was given the most incredible gift that can be given to anyone. I could never imagine a world without music, and I feel grateful that I've been given the ability to share that.

He carries well, to whom it waighes not. [He carries well, to whomit weighs not.]

I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.

I never wanted to go back and relive the glory days, I just want to keep moving forward. That's what I took from punk. Keep going. Don't look back.

I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.

I do like to dress up and look nice, and I'm inspired by people who do the same - people who express themselves through how they dress.

For me, environment is all. Place — as I was saying about my students — is absolutely essential.