One's relationship to time is complicated, and sometimes a day will drag on forever and sometimes it'll be over in a flash. When you look back, "I'm old," after 40 or 60 years, I can't believe I'm as old as I am.

I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.

Unfortunately, I never played an instrument. I can't blame my parents, but I wish I had had music lessons. It's odd because I think I have a good sense of rhythm, as they say in some fields. But I don't know anything about music.

Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world works.

I think my movies aren't sentimental. I think my movies are funny and sad and realistic. Not realistic in the sense that they're documentaries, but realistic in the sense that they're not idealistic, they're not optimistic, not pessimistic, and not propagandistic. They're an analysis of a situation. I call it as I see it, so to speak.

If I worked in my apartment, I'd never leave my apartment.

I don't really know what I want, other than good sequences, whatever that means. What I find is always a matter of chance, judgment, and luck.