The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed.

Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie.

I don't think any of us are normal people.

Anytime I make a movie, I really have absolutely no idea how it's going to go over. I've had the whole range of different kinds of reactions.

I don't really look for challenges as much as I like adventures. Other than that I'm just trying to find stories I want to tell.

The movies I make tend not to be quite reality but the characters are inspired by real people and they're always very personal.

You don't do background music the way a lot of more conventional films do. The music is often kind of a character in your films to the extent that sometimes you stop and watch someone perform a song.

I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience.

I wouldn't say that I'm particularly bothered or obsessed with detail.

I love working with actors. That's what the set really is, for me. It's my time with the actors.

Some of the ideas are kind of inspired by the songs, and I always want to use music to tell the story and give the movie a certain kind of mood. That's always essential to me.

Friendship grows from a caring heart with sense and sensibilities.

It is what you think it is that makes it so, and not necessarily what it really is.

I decided to stay in bed until noon. Maybe by then half the world would be dead and it would only be half as hard to take.

Paris ain't much of a town.

Sometimes I will endanger my own life to pleasure a woman.

More and more, the choice for the world's people is between becoming world warriors or world citizens.

Writing on the subway or anywhere is writing. Maybe it's all just writing.

To see a man as beautiful – means to make him really beautiful. There is no cunning, no deceit; this happens every time, everyone knows that.

The moon has nothing to be sad about, Staring from her hood of bone. She is used to this sort of thing. Her blacks crackle and drag.

I must be gone and live, or stay and die.