Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good.

I've been to North Africa many times.

I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days.

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

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

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

My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house.