The longer I live, the less I trust ideas, the more I trust emotions.

The longer I live, the less I trust ideas, the more I trust emotions.

You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.

It is only when memory is filtered through imagination that the films we make will have real depth.

I think predictability has become the rule and I'm completely the opposite -- I like spectators to be disturbed.

Filmmakers don't work for posterity. We create with celluloid and chemical pigments that don't last very long. They fade away. In 200 years there will be nothing left of our work but dust.

If you have someone on the set for the hair, why would you not have someone for the words?