I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Always stay open to surprise.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

I have found the more worthwhile something is, the more of your life is required to achieve it.

Juices of fruits and vegetables are pure gifts from Mother Nature and the most natural way to heal your body and make yourself whole again.

My next climb is going to be a tourist troll in a wheelchair.

I'm a much better writer for being a father.

I like fearless characters, people just not afraid to do anything it takes to make people laugh.

You want to be entertaining to some degree. But honesty is always entertaining to me.

When the play is still evolving I try to be at rehearsal as often as possible, and part of that casting process. You find new things when the language is living in different people's mouths.

Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?

You don’t question Providence. If you can’t have the reality, a dream is just as good.

God does not think; he creates. He does not exist; he is eternal.