I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do. I end up writing not from my own will, but from theirs-they come alive as I write and make me do things that I couldn't have planned.

To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.

There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.

If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take 'myself,' subtract 'movies,' and the result is 'zero.'