I'm not videotaping my life, but in a way I am trying to put certain things about myself on canvas.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Always stay open to surprise.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

Great minds think alike-especially when they are female.

One situation – maybe one alone – could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness.

One man two loves. No good ever comes of that.

Money is but one venue for generosity. Kindness is an even more valuable currency.

If Charlie Sheen outlives me, I'm gonna be really pissed.

Conceit is a disease That the doctors got no cure They've done a lot of research on it But what it is, they're still not sure.

However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself.

Each genre exerts a considerable spell, as a kind of "form" to be filled, as a Shakespearean sonnet is filled.

I think a bird is the worst present you can give somebody because it's guilt-ridden. This animal has the gift of flight, and you put it in a cage and watch it not do that until it dies.