The camera is the slave to the actor.

The greatest location in the world is the human face.

People who are making films today are too concerned with mechanics - technical things instead of feeling.

My films are expressive of a culture that has had the possibility of attaining material fulfillment while at the same time finding itself unable to accomplish the simple business of conducting human lives. We have been sold a bill of goods as a substitute for life. What is needed is reassurance in human emotions; a re-evaluation of our emotional capacities.

You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.

Filmmaking is exploring. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?

Film is, to me, just unimportant. But people are very important.