I care about cinema even though I haven't made many films.

I thank Henry James for the scene in the hotel room, that I stole from Portrait Of A Lady… This particular scene is the most beautiful scene ever written.

I'm not a cineaste. I've made so few films. Sometimes it feels each one is the last one or the first one.

I don't work with people who ask me questions.

It's incredible how much cinema can do. We forget.

Every film starts with two or three images. Then I try to edit these images.

The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not.

My films start with images, a few images and a few feelings, and I try to edit them together to see the correspondence between these images and these feelings.

Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.

I'm not only my films, but I'm pretty much my films.

When I was 16 I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh how wonderful, I'm ready.

My goals exceed the reach of my energies, but my God exceeds the reach of my goals.

Managers should understand there are some simple things they can do tomorrow that will make a big difference in their culture, but so few managers do them.

I don't like to be polarizing. It's not who I am.

I want to be adopted by the French. I want to go to live in Paris.

For students who are in the most creative group in America to somehow be presumed to be narrow is just completely meshugga.

Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy.

Ink cannot tell the glow that lights me at this moment in turning to the mountains. I feel strong [enough] to leap Yosemite walls at a bound.

In the music industry, you are in competition with everyone.

When I'm not working, I spend a lot of time on my hair. When it's time for my hair to get some rest, I either wear it in a ponytail, bun or my favorite "milkmaid" braid.