I think people should be different. I love people who don't go by the rule that you have to be careful because you're old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.

Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.

Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It's just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.

You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.

People like my films. They understand me through my films; it's like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.

Nostalgia doesn't make sense, because it's like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I'm inside my memories the same way I'm inside my everyday life.

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.