Pierrot le Fou is something I keep coming back to. Its so surreal but still really engaging - it proves narratives within narratives are a landscape that can be pursued well.

Filmmaking is a thousand choices a day and it's important to just let those choices potentially be informed by something deeper.

I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth.

I've always been anxious about 'Primer.' There's good things about it, but all I've seen for a long time is the flaws.

Probably the TV show I've watched the most is 'How It's Made' on the History Channel. I could watch 24 hours of 'How It's Made' and never get bored.

I have a really, really hard time sitting down and watching a TV show, except I'm apparently willing to watch the same episode of 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,' like, seven times.

My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story.

I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be.

When something is beautiful in math, everything is just perfectly lined up, and you see through sheer thought that something really beautiful can take place.

Many of my favorite films, if someone were to tell me simply what they're about, I probably wouldn't be that interested. Plot often has so little to do with what's at the heart of a film.

I will be making films, and I'm going to keep working, no matter what I have to do. And I don't plan to ever ask for permission from anybody.

We cannot measure a person’s value to the human race by tabulating the size of his estate. We must judge each person by his or her final contribution to humanity and nature.

There's only one thing left here to say. Love's never too late.

A God. The God. One word can make all the difference in the world.

We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.

I hate to say Napster kind of killed our business, but what can I tell ya?

A man's got to keep company a long time, and come early and stay late and sit close, before he can get a girl or a job worth having.

Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.

Who are we beyond the roles that we play?

Kosovo is not a part of Serbia. It is the very heart of Serbia.

I was on Khodorkovsky's payroll myself for ten years. I'm biased because I respect him.