I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to.

When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch.

Kubrick is a machine, a mutant, a Martian. He has no human feeling whatsoever. But it's great when the machine films other machines, as in 2001.

For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave.

Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.

And the fact that I see so many films really seems to amaze certain people.

You listen to people, you listen so deeply that you can hear their past lives, The crackle of their funeral pyres,

I have this recurring nightmare where I'm lost in a strange forest, and my only hope is your sense of direction. Enough to give a fellow the sweats, it is.

I'm wishing this was something else I was writing, but, Pops, we've got to let you know we love you and know you'll always be with us.

The agriculture taught at colleges between 1930 and 1980 has caused more damage on the face of the Earth than any other factor.

If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn't doing a very good job.

Still when I go on talk shows, I worry that I have to live up to a comedic persona.

Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.

Any game that you step on, you can get beat.

When a cricketer gets hit in the private parts, he hopes the pain will go away very soon but the swelling doesn't!

The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die.