No one was jumping up and saying, 'Yeah, let me give you money. ' I had never held a camera in my hand - a home video camera, nothing. I had not directed
There’s nothing better than an elegant cry of despair.
For me, environment is all. Place is absolutely essential.
It’s amazing how quickly something gets written. Now, when it comes, it can be on a bus, or in a store. I’ve stopped in Macy’s and written on a dry-goods counter and then suddenly had a whole piece of writing for myself that was accomplished, where earlier in my life I felt I had to spend a week in a house somewhere in the country in order to get that. Conditions change.
Maybe solitude is best had in the midst of multitudes.
America is better when all of us take care of all of us.
When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.
Home for me is wherever my wife and kid are.
Ever step you take is forever.