Of all the butterflies that chose to stay, I’m in love with the one that got away.
But if I didn't read, I'd think, and thinking, when you come down to it, is the most painful thing of all, and the most monopolizing
I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.
I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.
I do not say with words. I do not say it with images either. … I do not say, I show. I show people who move and speak. That is all I know how to do, but that is my true subject.
You have to know how to go against the trend of the times.
I don't owe my success to state subsidies but to a faithful public which has sustained me.
I just felt like I can try to do something special.
Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be.
Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity
There's an old Celtic proverb that I follow: See much, study much, suffer much is the path to wisdom.