To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back... abandoned.

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.

The royal power is the grace to act right.

If a man aspires to a righteous life, his first act of abstinence if from injury to animals.

If you're not happy every morning when you get up leave for work or start to work at home if you're not enthusiastic about doing that you're not going to be successful.

If you can't beat 'em, cooperate 'em to death!

Death from this life is just graduation from this grade. It's our release, our graduation, our promotion. School is out! We've finished our schooling in this grade and we pass on to the next grade.

It's difficult to have everybody like everything you do. I don't know anybody that's perfect and doesn't have a zit somewhere.

If you can't learn to enjoy your life when you have problems, you may never enjoy it because we'll always have problems.

Nothing worth doing right is easy.

Once there are more African Americans and Asian Americans behind the scenes as producers, writers, and directors, I think more inclusive casting will happen.

Well, when I walk behind short people I feel like I'm going to fall over because I start taking these little steps, and I can't take little steps.