It is only when memory is filtered through imagination that the films we make will have real depth.

The longer I live, the less I trust ideas, the more I trust emotions.

You see the world much better through a camera.

Memory is not frozen, it's very much alive, it moves, it changes.

You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.

Filmmakers don't work for posterity. We create with celluloid and chemical pigments that don't last very long. They fade away. In 200 years there will be nothing left of our work but dust.

When you are working on a script, the story itself is not difficult. You say this would happen and then this, resulting perhaps in this. And the dialogue you make as true as you can.

If you have someone on the set for the hair, why would you not have someone for the words?

I think predictability has become the rule and I'm completely the opposite -- I like spectators to be disturbed.

Well, Fellini... there is always Fellini.

Let them be what they want to be. Make yourselves what you want to be.

I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.

Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of grace. The gift of grace increases as the struggles increase.

The spring has sprung, the grass is rizz. I wonder where them birdies is?

Nobody, 20 years ago, forecast the Internet.

The threat of terrorism is not stronger than the will of the American people.

That's my big fear, and not enjoying things as much as I could and realizing actually how awesome life is right now.

As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.

If government goes beyond securing liberty and instead violates it through regulation, redistribution, and planning, then citizens are victims of legal plunder.