Everything goes by so fast that if you want to be a part of it, you need to go that fast. But because you go that fast, you don't lead the life you should lead.

You need to feed yourself with emotions and life or youll become empty.

In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.

I think it's very boring for a director to always do the same kind of movies.

You have to draw on your unconscious when you make a film - you can't worry about whether it's costing a lot of money.

I spent all my youth with horses.

Directing remains very psychological, and it takes a lot of time and reflection. When you're an actor, it takes less time, and you can express yourself physically.

I would rather do really good French films than 'American Pie.'

I'm an absolute fan of 1970s New York in films like 'Mean Streets' and 'Dog Day Afternoon.

Music is one of the important things for me in cinema.

It's physically and psychologically exhausting to make a film.

Captain Reed eyed him thoughtfully. "I built my whole life around the stories they about me. You know what I learned?"Archer shook his head."What you do makes you who you are....

Should a small business or a large business be able to pollute the water or the air or the food? No, I hope you don't believe that.

It really kind of sucked to be close to someone for so long and then suddenly not be anything anymore.

There's no end to the brutality of this regime, but it's pretty clear this Kim Jong-un is not quite consolidated in power quite yet.

If we're in some sort of Hobbesian state of nature, where you just want a strong man who has no compassion Donald Trump is going to do a little better. So, we will figure out what game we're playing.

We eventually learn that emotional closure is our own action. We can be responsible for it. In any moment, we can choose to open or to close.

There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black.

When I am at home, I never watch TV, but when I am abroad in a hotel I take a look at the BBC to find out what's going on.

You'll never be great at anything you're not passionate about.

I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.