To be a creative person and be a professional, as an artist you have to be able to withstand pain, rejection, and for some, a lot of bad feelings, but you have to be able to look through those.

All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That’s what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.

By 1988, I was living in New York myself.

To me, honesty and the difficulty of honest communication are at the heart of both my life and my movies. The difficulty of being yourself.

You are always factoring in the economy within the process of creating something, and making decisions that seem both fearless and full of fear.

I'm a version of the same person.

I actually feel that all drama has an element of comedy in it. A great deal of that I learned from writers like Chekhov who called his plays his comedy even when they touch on tragedy.

The questions of economics, and how they infect, or rather how they affect intimacy. And that's probably the subject of all my films.

For me, an actor is really, first and foremost, a person and an individual, more than they are an actor or a professional.

I'm interested in what actors reveal about themselves through the structure of the character.

I'm someone who can create critiques of individuals based on their economic history. That's one way I look at people in terms of one story that could be told purely in a Marxist construction.

If you know what life really wants, and if you know what you really want, you can begin to create the relationship.

The past is a hotel. You can visit any time

Why haven't they killed us yet?""Our lives aren't important. For some reason, it's always been about her.

When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.

Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

One sweet world Around this star is spinning One sweet world And in her breath I'm swimming And here we will rest in peace

Well, sure, but I don't bring God into it. I think shower massage might have been invented by the devil. God invented the missionary position.

I'd say that individuals are respected who stick to their convictions instead of doing whatever happens to be in fashion.

Problems are good, not bad. Welcome them and become the solution. When you have solved enough problems, people will thank you.