I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.

When you're in the desert, you look into infinity.... It makes you feel terribly small, and also in a strange way, quite big.

Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique.

I think people remember pictures not dialogue. That's why I like pictures.

Good films can be made only by a crew of Dedicated Maniacs.

My distinguishing talent is the ability to put people under the microscope, perhaps to go one or two layers farther down than some other directors.

I rather like mysteries. But I do dislike muddles.

I'm first and foremost interested in the story, the characters.

Don't make jokes about food.

Success is more like a character than financial status

the currency of the future will be memory

I believe you have to keep the theological standard high; the Lord said, 'Be perfect,' and the leaders have to be striving for that standard with all there is in them.

I expect to retire to a fine-grained heaven where the temperatures are always consistent, where the images slide before one's eyes in a continual cascade of form and meaning.

... our objects, bibelots, whatnots, and knickknacks-say the most about who we are. They are as honest as a diary.

My acting is atrocious, to say the least. But I've found that it's not acting that people are concerned about, it's your presence.

"Be courageous and keep moving forward"... that's kind of the mantra that I've tried to keep.

Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it.

The beauty of life is not knowing.

I can't pay my [bills]. I can't go to work. My car is out of gas.