Pictures are not incidental frills to a text; they are essences of our distinctive way of knowing.
I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.
I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.
I never wanted money worries to slow me down or make me take a job I didn't want.
Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that's everywhere around the world.
Just because I make films doesn't mean I think they're great. I just make them and then when I'm done with them I'm just a filmgoer like I always am. They're all lessons. I'm still in film school, honestly. And this one is just a dry run for whatever the next one is.
Even if we die at 100, we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.
I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature
It is wonderful to be despised, if, deep down, we know we are right.
With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.
Since there are thousands of reasons to be happy, let us smile so many thousands times!