Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.

Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older and thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety.

Making a film is like going down a mine-once you've started you bid a metaphoricalgoodbye to the daylight and the outside world for the duration.

I'll never forget the first screening at the Berlin Film Festival. As soon as the film ended there was an outbreak of booing, which made us look at each other with some surprise.

Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.

That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.

There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson.

No, United Artists was a very extraordinary organization, because once they had agreed on the director, they believed in letting him have his way. They trusted me, and that doesn't often happen.

I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.

The measure of wealth is the ability to afford ones' mistakes.

Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

I went down and spoke to some of the people who lived in the neighborhood in Miami. At the end of the day I think my connection with Tarell [Alvin McCraney] is what helped me the most.

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.

It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

Stupid people always ignored good advice

Home has always been one of the most important things. If I don't feel at home in my space, then I feel really unmoored.

For every one look at your sins, take five looks at your Savior.