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.

Watching a Kubrick film is like gazing up at a mountaintop. You look up and wonder, how could anyone have climbed that high?

Basically, you make another movie, and another, and hopefully you feel good about every picture you make. And you say, 'My name is on that. I did that. It's OK.' But don't get me wrong, I still get excited by it all. That, I hope, will never disappear.

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.

There's a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you.

Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.

I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film.