You can work, shop, do everything from home, and I find this unsettling.

You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.

I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films.

I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.

No, but it’s not because I’m getting older that I’m trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I’m getting.

But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.

When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.

What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do.

Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.

I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera.

I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation.

So friends, get out of your comfort zone. Don’t be afraid of pain. Confront your pains

The poor who commit murder, rape and robbery are not only not starving, they have far more material things than the word ‘poverty’ suggests.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.

I have nothing in my life besides my work. I am obsessed with it. I leave my house only when I'm forced to.

The walls of isolation are not as solid as your suffering makes them seem.

When the country prospers, everyone does. In music and in everything.

I am not a philosopher.

Happy that New York passed marriage equality tonight. A victory for human rights. Progress.

Maybe when your mother died young, you became instantly old.

I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.