It's incredible how much cinema can do. We forget.

I thank Henry James for the scene in the hotel room, that I stole from Portrait Of A Lady… This particular scene is the most beautiful scene ever written.

I care about cinema even though I haven't made many films.

I'm not a cineaste. I've made so few films. Sometimes it feels each one is the last one or the first one.

I don't work with people who ask me questions.

Every film starts with two or three images. Then I try to edit these images.

The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not.

My films start with images, a few images and a few feelings, and I try to edit them together to see the correspondence between these images and these feelings.

Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.

I'm not only my films, but I'm pretty much my films.

When I was 16 I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh how wonderful, I'm ready.

ThoughtOf equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chancesand rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

Every little thing counts in a crisis.

What do I think of L.A.? It's boring, with some amazing nuggets. Like there are some parts of it that are great, but by and large I think it's quite boring.

Never allow others to put obstacles in the pathway of your dreams

I was a theater man, so I was never in the situation of being a handsome Hollywood leading man, and then having to age.

Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.

Let the jagged edge of sobriety be now dulled.

The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion.

The role of private equity as fiduciaries is certainly to make money.

Nothing could have survived our life.