The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.

A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.

When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting.

The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man.

The foundation of all civilization is loitering.

A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.

Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?

The only things that are important in life are the things you remember.

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.

I am against great themes and great subjects... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact.

There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.

... your father has two secrets. You, Kip are not one of them.

The farmer's way of saving money: to be owed by someone he trusted.

I never put myself in a box. I like to have various different types of songs and different genres and situational songs. No matter is going on, I have something for that time or era.

The phrase booze and mischief left me worrying I'd stumbled into what my mother referred to as "the wrong crowd," but for the wrong crowd, they both seemed awfully smart.

Grace removes obstacles that we don’t even know are there. Grace is what arranges our lives so we are forced to look within.

It's been Axelle's [Carolyn] and my burden to bear, for better or worse. A very fun burden to bear.

After I became confident in Him it didn't matter what anyone said because I was confident in something and someone way bigger than myself.

It's important to always say thank you to your BFF.

It was an arranged marriage, put together by drugs and alcohol.

what a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. hopeless rubbish.