I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.

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.

There are two kinds of leaders, cowboys and Shepherds. Cowboys drive and Shepherds lead.

Loneliness changes you more than time.

In each fire there is a spirit; Each one is wrapped in what is burning him.

We still believe in the America that is a land of opportunity and a beacon of freedom. We believe in the America that challenges each of us to be better and bigger than ourselves.

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't.

The beet must be uprooted.

Fame is a curse... it was the worst phase of my life, which I thank God I'll never have to go through again.

The man had arrived at that stage of drunkenness where affection is felt for the universe.

I didn't go out looking for fights as a kid, but if it was necessary, I'd fight. Fighting was a daily thing where we lived.