The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema.

I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.

I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those.

I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks.

If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.

I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem.

A dolly move is a moral commitment.

A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.

As a loyal believer in the Auteur Theory I first felt editing was but the logical consequence of the way in which one shoots. But, what I learned is that it is actually another writing.

Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema.

I remember being young in the 1960s. We had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.

Bir kaplanın sırtında yolculuk etmenin en önemli kuralı, kulaklarını asla bırakmamaktır.

Jesus is a powerful guy in Hollywood. Not quite as powerful as Vin Diesel, but powerful.

Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.

I can wade through contrast and give birth to desires without yielding my Well Being.

The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.

If you want to accord with the Tao, just do your job, then let go.

I'm writing a memoir. I'm four pages in. I start with my first memory, which is kicking my uncle in the balls. I was four.

Actually, I find it great fun to develop family series with lots of characters.

Geometry draws the soul towards truth.

There will be a lot of fun things happening. Looking forward to singing on the ship!