I'm hoping one day I can make one really good film.

What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?

If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.

I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.

You just never know when you're living in a golden age.

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.

A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.

I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.

If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.

Spread love. Hug the people you care about and make sure they know that you care and appreciate them. Make it known to your friends and family that you love them.

I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.

You know how it is -- you get older, you get wiser, you start to ask yourself 'is it any use being able to summon creatures of the nether deeps when I could be watching BBC 4?

Those who eat porridge and those who drink gruel live and die.Even though the faces change, porridge eaters and gruel drinkers continue to manifest.

Cynicism does not cause inaction.

What a tiny list of friends I have! All my fault. I less and less want to see people.

A woman will do anything to keep a pretty figure, but hardly anything to get one.

Start young. Throw your arms around ladies knees. As you get older it will get more interesting.

Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won.

A cynical plan has been launched in Ukraine to destroy this administration