I am in love with the idea of doing a movie in 3D. I think 3D would be great for the story I want to do, in a realistic, normal story, using 3D on the emotions in a kind of intimate story.

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.

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 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.

The easiest mistake to make is to lose sight of your goal. Failure is temporary, but quitting is permanent. Choose wisely.

Vocabulary for aggravation is large. Vocabulary for transcendence is elusive.

Judgement is poverty.

I'm a subjectivist about morality.

I don't know if I was put on this Earth for a purpose or not. But I'm fairly confident that I'll be taken off of it for one.

I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because its repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

If you don't love acting more than anything else, don't do it. It's not a normal life. It will take you away from your family, friends and life in general.

Mirrors are ice which do not melt: what melts are those who admire themselves in them.

Man City needed something and when Johnson did something, something happened

I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.