Music and film are inseparable. They always have been and always will be.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Always stay open to surprise.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

One finds limits by pushing them.

My mom has beautiful eyes, and I inherited a lot of her rituals, accentuating eyes.

With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations.

Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.

I'm a married man and I've got two children, and you have to do sacrifices.

When the bad imitate the good, there is no knowing what mischief is intended.

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.

A skunk is better company than a person who prides himself on being 'frank'.

The difference between a vision and a daydream is the audacity to act.

There is no God any more divine than Yourself.