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

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

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail...Say what you are. Not what you would like to be. Not what you have to be. Just say what you are. And what you are is good enough.

I have the confidence that I can take anybody and have them give a good performance, because I don't think there's anything to acting except expressing, being able to converse. So if I can just convince somebody not to clean themselves up, and not to be someone that they're not, and just be what they are in given circumstances, that's all that acting is to me, and I don't think it's very difficult.

An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.

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

I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.