For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave.

When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch.

Kubrick is a machine, a mutant, a Martian. He has no human feeling whatsoever. But it's great when the machine films other machines, as in 2001.

Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.

And the fact that I see so many films really seems to amaze certain people.

I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

As long as some sufferThe River Flows ForeverAs long as there is painThe River Flows ForeverAs strong as a smile can beThe River will Flow Forever

An honest government is the childish dream of the gullible men!

And for once i didn't look back.

You know, in Saudi Arabia, there is a body of 40 people - 34 people exactly, that once the succession comes, they will meet and they will elect a king in there.

Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It's the skim milk that needs good teachers.

I will defend Planned Parenthood. I will defend Roe v. Wade, and I will defend women's rights to make their own health care decisions.

When you don't understand, it's sometimes easier to look like you do.

As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Women are not attracted to men who are good looking - they are attracted to men who are attractive.