There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro.

You have to put yourself in a situation, a lifestyle, that makes you do the work. Even if it's a monastery.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Violence is not the answer, it doesn’t work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the greatest atrocities in the history of the world have occurred... The nature of human beings must change. We must cultivate love and compassion.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

[Kubrick] was unique in the sense that with each new film he redefined the medium and its possibilities. But he was more than just a technical innovator. Like all visionaries, he spoke the truth. And no matter how comfortable we think we are with the truth, it always comes as a profound shock when we're forced to meet it face-to-face.

Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my 20s and 30s. If you're in your 60s and you're with the kid every day, you're dealing with the mind of a child, so it opens up that childishness in you again.