One thing that I'm sure of is the real pleasure of life - it's not being known, it's not having your own jet plane, it's not having a mansion the pleasure is to learn something

A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually.

In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer.

I like to work in the morning. I like to sometimes go to a place where I'm all alone where I'm not going to get a phone call early that hurts my feelings, because once my feelings are hurt, I'm dead in the water.

When I was 13, I worked for Western Union. When the telegrams came in, I would glue them on the paper and deliver them on my bicycle.

So much of the art of film is to do less. To aspire to do less.

I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.