Being a writer-director can sometimes make you incredibly blinkered.
By the way, everybody approaches acting differently. Like, I'm kind of sloppy and I like it kind of loose. I like to kind of play around. Some people don't.
I don't want to watch [films I was acting in]. I've had enough of me.
There are a lot of movies I feel good about. It was a great experience that I was lucky enough to be there in it. That's the way I feel.
Pretty is a self-serving situation in which it's all about you. People who are pretty are superficial, but they are not beautiful. Beauty requires more depth.
I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my past.
It's very odd, being older, because in a way it's hard to own the past, even.
When you’re at the beginning, don’t obsess about the middle, because the middle is going to look different once you get there.
My generation those who were students in the late 60s was always, in the words of the Who, talking about our generation. That's what we thought of ourselves, as the most important thing since sliced bread. And the "we" that we meant was really the Western Europeans and American generation. And as I think back I suppose I have a sense of guilt on behalf of my generation, a sense that we were terribly provincial and didn't understand the really important stuff that was going on in Eastern Europe.
Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.
Go over to Greece with the Iliad and Odyssey. These have elements of history, and they have non-historical elements. It's very difficult to pull them apart. And I think there's not much reason to.