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.

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.

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.

I never thought of clothes as having a life of their own -but they do. We all wear an outer layer to hide who we really are.

Climate change is like my head: it’s not visible in every instance, but I’m pretty darn sure it’s there.

Jazz music is a language of the emotions.

It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams

America is in such trouble.

[On hearing that President Coolidge was dead:] How can you tell?

From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy.

It's never a metric, it's where the person is going or not. Metrics are used to make things work better, but don't necessarily make a business better.

Like when I'm singing live I can't hear myself. I'm just listening to the rest of the band. To listen to my voice, it doesn't even feel like it's me.

The sidelines may be safer but life is played on the field