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 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.

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

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.

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.

I have a hard time trusting a person without a couple of murders on his record, Mr. Draedax.

One must strike the right balance between speed and quality.

Whatever belief I am practicing the Law of Attraction will validate with evidence.

The Holy Spirit knows what a particular age's most pressing need is far better than men with their programs.

Why do people shush animals? Theyve never spoken

Three hours of writing require twenty hours of preparation. Luckily I have learned to dream about the work, which saves me some working time.

Corporations are the only reason the tax code is so complicated in the first place. Those off-shore loopholes didn't get carved out by poor people.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Pop culture used to be like LSD – different, eye-opening and reasonably dangerous. It’s now like crack – isolating, wasteful and with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

It's a hurtful place, the world, in and of itself. We don't need to add to it. And we're in a place now where we all need one another, and it's going to get rougher.