My favorite favorites are people like Bunuel, Fellini and Charlie Chaplin.

The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.

Coppola has problems getting financing, so why should I not have problems getting financing.

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.

I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.

Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.

I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way.

I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.

The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.

I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.

History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

If you aren't diligently working towards changing something that bothers you, you rescind your right to complain about it.

All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.

I just wore a cage my whole career coming up, and didn't feel a reason not to have some type of protection.

America has everything, why should they want us.

Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her.

What good is it that Christ was born [2,000] years ago if he is not born now in your heart?

I wouldn't want to do a 'Maury Povich' show. Baby daddy! Who's your daddy? Who's your mama? I wouldn't want to do that kind of show.

Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.

Few women are dumb enough to listen to reason.