The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.

Audiences arent fools - their judgement really is important. And the true heroes of films are the investors. They take the risk, after all.

To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally.

It never crossed my mind to make a film about Muhammad Ali or the Queen or any of them! They just come out of the blue.

There's the physical life and the voice, but at some point you abandon all of that, you know what the spirit of the person is and you let it descend and just get on with it.

I teach film directing, inasmuch as you can. Its not really possible to teach film direction, but I sit there as a sort of testimony of experience and know-how, I suppose.

As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.

Tears can ruin the handiwork of the best beautician.

Life is a flowing river. We came from earth and water. We will go back there after the magic of life.

I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.

I'm addicted to tattoos. I can't stop; I love them.

Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who have undergone a suitable training.

In high tide or in low tide, I'll be by your side

I'm not aware of having a creepy laugh, but apparently I do.

I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department.

When a sound can replace an image, cut the image or neutralize it. The ear goes more towards the within, the eye towards the outer.

No one is perfect but without honesty you've got nothing.