You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.

The longer I live, the less I trust ideas, the more I trust emotions.

It is only when memory is filtered through imagination that the films we make will have real depth.

You see the world much better through a camera.

Memory is not frozen, it's very much alive, it moves, it changes.

Filmmakers don't work for posterity. We create with celluloid and chemical pigments that don't last very long. They fade away. In 200 years there will be nothing left of our work but dust.

When you are working on a script, the story itself is not difficult. You say this would happen and then this, resulting perhaps in this. And the dialogue you make as true as you can.

If you have someone on the set for the hair, why would you not have someone for the words?

I think predictability has become the rule and I'm completely the opposite -- I like spectators to be disturbed.

Well, Fellini... there is always Fellini.

The sea never dries for it has so many friends.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

I'm constantly looking to see whether I look the same as I did earlier, whether I've put on or lost any weight.

To say, my fate is not tied to your fate, is like saying your end of the boat is sinking.

Rather than a democracy, we increasingly have an elective dictatorship. People are merely permitted to choose who will violate the laws and the Constitution.

You're never totally sure. I shouldn't say that because you have to pretend you're completely self-secure all the time. But, the truth is, I know what I'm doing. I think I know what I'm doing.

The U.N. power comes from concerted action of the governments.

Artificial Intelligence is whatever hasn't been done yet.

We treat our encounters with them with carefree casualness. We are certain that our relationships will naturally take care of themselves.

You really should be able to feel the higher power of music and be moved by it, rather than listening to me waffle on and having to explain it.