You see, in this world there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.

A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.

When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting.

The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man.

The foundation of all civilization is loitering.

The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.

A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.

Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?

The only things that are important in life are the things you remember.

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.

I am against great themes and great subjects... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact.

Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs.

You cannot appreciate God without appreciating people

There's nothing good about diversity, other than the food, and we don't need 128 million Mexicans for the restaurants.

A good filmmaker is someone who can look at a piece and go, "This camera's really going to be a character. I want people to feel like they're being punched."

It is a good thing to let someone else's vision take over, and it has always been a good thing in the end.

When people like me, they like me "in spite of my color." When they dislike me; they point out that it isn't because of my color. Either way, I am locked in to the infernal circle.

Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

Being a woman is interesting, but it shouldn’t stop you from being a person.

I'm pretty tenacious when it comes to problems.