I wish I could play music. I think I get as closeas possible with the editing of the films. Over the years musichas been an even more important influence than-or as important as-film.There's no doubt about it. Painting, movement, dance, sculpture-it'sall in cinema.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

All my life, I never really felt comfortable anywhere in New York, except maybe in an apartment somewhere.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

I'm going to be 60, and I'm almost used to myself.

Vic Armstrong is, of course, a legend

In truly great films - the ones that people need to make, the ones that start speaking through them, the ones that keep moving into territory that is more and more unfathomable and uncomfortable - nothing's ever simple or neatly resolved. You're left with a mystery.