We all get a little tired of being ourselves sometimes. The answer is to reinvent yourself, but how do you do that and what is the cost?

I thank Henry James for the scene in the hotel room, that I stole from Portrait Of A Lady… This particular scene is the most beautiful scene ever written.

I care about cinema even though I haven't made many films.

I'm not a cineaste. I've made so few films. Sometimes it feels each one is the last one or the first one.

I don't work with people who ask me questions.

It's incredible how much cinema can do. We forget.

Every film starts with two or three images. Then I try to edit these images.

The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not.

My films start with images, a few images and a few feelings, and I try to edit them together to see the correspondence between these images and these feelings.

Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.

I'm not only my films, but I'm pretty much my films.

Starting the Day— Another chance to be new again. How many of us still wish for that? To be your own sunrise. To awaken like a prayer -both solemn and joyful at still being alive.

I need one of those chapter breaks. I just want to catch my breath, but I have no idea how.

The moment we confront our fears we are declaring that we are contenders for life, and for love.

I don't know … but I think this Ebola epidemic is a form of population control.

Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.

Half the time when brothers wrestle, it's just an excuse to hug each other.

I do believe that one way to have a destiny is to choose one.

President Barack Obama started by accepting the military's counterinsurgency, but came out of Afghanistan having decided that counterinsurgency actually doesn't work.

A team that thinks it's going to lose is going to lose.

Taste is something quite different from fashion, superior to fashion.