A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.

I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.

I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those.

I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks.

If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.

I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem.

A dolly move is a moral commitment.

As a loyal believer in the Auteur Theory I first felt editing was but the logical consequence of the way in which one shoots. But, what I learned is that it is actually another writing.

Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema.

I remember being young in the 1960s. We had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.

Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.

Voice is really about letting your characters loose.

Formerly, people thought that if matter disappeared from the universe, space and time would remain. Relativity declares that space and time would disappear with matter.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness.

If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power.

It's funny --- sometimes the strongest individuals feel the worst when events are out of their control, and they can't really be there for the people they love. I've felt it myself.

In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?

my mother insisted that I had to try things on to make sure they were becoming. Becoming what, I always asked.

Death is a doorway. It is a very small, thin doorway and only a portion of our being can walk through.

All my high school papers were written in the rare book room.

Paddling a canoe is a source of enrichment and inner renewal.