If I'm not complaining, I'm not having a good time, hah hah!

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

If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?

It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.

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

As you grow older, you change.

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.