Of course one worries about getting older - we're all fearful of death, let's not kid ourselves. I'm simply not panicking as my laugh lines grow deeper. Who wants a face with no history, no sense of humor?

I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth.

Any industry loses its innovation and loses its access to creative juices if you don't have progressive thinking and diversity.

I don't think about being beautiful or not being beautiful. ... It's more about feeling confident inside your own skin really and thinking about yourself as little as possible.

Culture civilizes us, and that's why every single despotic regime has tried to smash [the arts].

I could do a thousand films that are easy for me to do-that's if I don't fall in the next year, because everyone's about to fall. What's so funny is you look at all us young guys and we're already thinking, Well, I'm going to branch out into directing, and it's all going to be this and that.

Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.