It's hard for a hit to be bad for your career.

The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.

Coppola has problems getting financing, so why should I not have problems getting financing.

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.

I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.

Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.

I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way.

I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.

The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.

I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.

If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.

People enjoy convincing others, if others are wrong they convince them towards right, if others are already right they still want to convince them towards wrong.

udge not, before you judge yourself. Judge not, if you're not ready for judgment.

Slowly, desolately, the fist of what we'd done unclenched the clawed palm of what we'd become.

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly.

Art is when things appear rounded.

To be free and to live a free life - that is the most beautiful thing there is.

What new psychology suggests, it's the factor that is top of consciousness at the moment before you make that economic decision that will win the day.

When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.

Every idea has to become broad till it covers the whole of this world, every aspiration must go on increasing till it has engulfed the whole of humanity, nay, the whole of life, within its scope.