I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

The idea of America is so wonderful because the more equal something is, the more American it is

You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people.

What I was actually trying to do in my early movies was show how people can meet other people and what they can do and what they can say to each other. That was the whole idea: two people getting acquainted.

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.

A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.