You see the world much better through a camera.

The longer I live, the less I trust ideas, the more I trust emotions.

It is only when memory is filtered through imagination that the films we make will have real depth.

Memory is not frozen, it's very much alive, it moves, it changes.

You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.

Filmmakers don't work for posterity. We create with celluloid and chemical pigments that don't last very long. They fade away. In 200 years there will be nothing left of our work but dust.

When you are working on a script, the story itself is not difficult. You say this would happen and then this, resulting perhaps in this. And the dialogue you make as true as you can.

If you have someone on the set for the hair, why would you not have someone for the words?

I think predictability has become the rule and I'm completely the opposite -- I like spectators to be disturbed.

Well, Fellini... there is always Fellini.

"Well-- I don’t know-- the cops might not respond too well to you looking through their windows with a telescope."

Sometimes we encourage someone without even being aware of it. Even the example we set by attending church may encourage someone who is searching for God.

I didn't want to feel like I was mimicking or copying someone else's performance, whether it's subconscious or not.

Visualizing information is a form of knowledge compression.

~I try to call my mother, Betty, with more regularity because I think, What if Hazel didn't call me for two weeks? I'm able to see her mothering now from a different vantage point.~

Have I been blind, have I been lost, inside myself and my own mind?

My boots use recycled electronics and recycled plastics from the ocean.

Getting there isn't half the fun - it's all the fun.

Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive.

To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.