In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.

You need to feed yourself with emotions and life or youll become empty.

I think it's very boring for a director to always do the same kind of movies.

Everything goes by so fast that if you want to be a part of it, you need to go that fast. But because you go that fast, you don't lead the life you should lead.

You have to draw on your unconscious when you make a film - you can't worry about whether it's costing a lot of money.

I spent all my youth with horses.

Directing remains very psychological, and it takes a lot of time and reflection. When you're an actor, it takes less time, and you can express yourself physically.

I would rather do really good French films than 'American Pie.'

I'm an absolute fan of 1970s New York in films like 'Mean Streets' and 'Dog Day Afternoon.

Music is one of the important things for me in cinema.

It's physically and psychologically exhausting to make a film.

Early morning exercise will keep you active for the entire day.

This the kind of world, if you don’t die, you just keep on growing up and living through everything that comes.

If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light.

When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence.

People like me and Ozu get films made by hard work, but Shimizu is a genius.

Early Christianity, like Roman-era philosophical traditions, laid emphasis on everyday behavior, about how to live your life.

If you're fascinated by America, you'll be fascinated by family.

I think, in comedy, timing is everything. You and I could tell the same joke, but if one of our timing is off, it won't be as funny. You've gotta know when to deliver your punch-lines.

Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry... and he's a mass murderer.

The history of literature is the history of the human mind.