The observer and the universe are part of the same universe. It's what science discovered at the beginning of this century, when they say you can't tell where an atomic particle is. You know where they are, but not their speed; or you know their speed but not their place, because it depends on you. The one who describes is part of the description.

The world isn't a sad place, it's just big.

There is no point in having sharp images when you've fuzzy ideas.

One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.

There is a problem in pretending I can still control my destiny in the commercial market.

There is a new world coming and this new world is very rude.

Hollywood was invented by hoodlums from central Europe. And today a Hollywood lawyer is not a hoodlum. He's a bureaucrat.