I think when you're young and have that first burst of energy and make five or six pictures in a row that tell the stories of all the things in life you want to say... well, maybe those are the films that should have won me the Oscar.

Sometimes God picks you up and tells you, "You've been messing around now. You're going to have to stop this, stop that, but I'll give you another chance." And you wonder why you're given another chance. It must be for something; it must be to celebrate life.

I prefer people who don't get caught, and if they do get caught, I prefer people who don't give in.

It’s often overlooked. It’s labor. That’s at the heart of #‎ collaboration .

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

There are movies that change the whole way in which films are made, like Klute, where Gordon Willis’s photography on the film is so textured, and, they said, too dark.