The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world.

I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.

A work of art doesn't dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself.

Hollywood has always been a cage...a cage to catch our dreams

A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.

Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place they're capable of anything.

What to do when inspiration doesn't come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes.

I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.

Once you have found the right shot to introduce the scene-written your first declarative sentence-then the rest flows. You've found the key to the whole scene.

I relieve myself from the rigours of directing by casting the movie correctly.

Critics have never been able to discover a unifying theme in my films. For thatmatter, neither have I.

Go a little easy on the people around you. Try to reel in judging thoughts. Think before you speak.

American women drove hard bargains and the ended up looking the worst for it. The few natural American women left were mostly in Texas and Louisiana.

There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.

Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.

My motto in life is that nothing is impossible, no target unachievable - one just has to try harder and harder.

Like a hero in a dream, Christ came and He rescued me.

I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes that's rewarding and sometimes that creates an existential crisis.

A typical Irish dinner would be: cream flavored with lobster, cream with bits of veal in it, green peas and cream, cream cheese, cream flavored with strawberries.

My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.

Nothing is so much fun as business. I do not expect to do anything but work as long as I can stand up.