The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.

Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.

I have one life. I am a certain age. I'm married to one person. I have a certain number of children. I won't have another life other than that, but I do have many lives through the films.

I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.

Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.

One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.

Nobody wants to tell a truth which harms himself.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Let's make our own way, ' says the Mother, 'and not in this boat.

We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work, it doesn't matter. But work is third.

Don't be afraid of losing, be afraid of playing a game and not learning something.

It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner.

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Failure is not tied to money; it is a mindset. Failure is when we accept the lot we are given.

I wanted to show I had balls at age 60.

Accept change as a friend. And don't take yourself too seriously.