So much can be learned by any filmmaker by studying his work, in terms of blocking, staging, editing and sound.

We're living in a world that says that if you engage in mass fraud, you'll be rewarded, but if you go down the street and steal an orange juice, you get arrested.

The job of the writer and the filmmaker is not to impose his vision on the reality, but to be inspired by the reality and create a vision out of that.

I never say "Action" or "Cut." Never. I think that would disturb the life from happening in and around everything.

Since Hollywood seems to be more interested in people wearing tights and using powers, there seems to be a fertile ground for movies about real human beings.

It's hard for me to say you have to accept that the world is meaningless and the landscape is there before and after. That's not something we learn much in our culture growing up.

Sometimes we have dreams, but we just can't make them. That's normal.

I think happy and hope is more hopeful when you acknowledge that there's awful things too.

I'm not going to read reviews like, "I have to do these things." Any good criticism makes you think about your own films and about cinema in general.

You have to let life come and go.

I like to give the actors the freedom, and they know they have the freedom, to change anything they want at any time.

It’s great to earn, but don’t leave it behind for someone else to burn.

One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments.

Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism.

While enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster

I would not have had anything to eat if it wasn't for the stuff the audience threw at me.

I think I'm much more afraid of making a mistake in raising my daughters than I would be with any work that I do, as an actor. It's a much higher scale of fear, raising kids.

If I did not speak with people who call me names, I could not engage in politics.

There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, then all at once it gets awkward.

The mind can be a crazy monkey that is always dying to escape from the moment.

our real fears are the sounds of footsteps walking in the corridors of our minds, and the anxieties, the phantom floatings, they create.