I encouraged the cast to make up their own lines.

I am very romantic about communism even still, but I know terrible things happened.

I am a man of very many anxieties but doing strange things with the camera is not one of them.

I would say that I am a poor Christian; I'm not a believer. It was this idea very early in my life that life on Earth, nature or man could not be a creation of a merciful God.

I'm not a woman! Let's make that very clear! Oh I don't know, maybe I am. I am an American woman. Or 65 percent of me is.

I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.

That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them