That seems to me the greatest American danger we're all in, that we'll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it.

I have never understood people dividing things into dramas and comedies.

There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love.

In making movies, time is so short-because it is so expensive-that we tend to neglect the place from which the best ideas come, namely that part of ourselves that dreams. The unconscious is our best collaborator.

The unconscious is our best collaborator.

It's the hardest thing on earth to like yourself, and then when you do, it's a catastrophe. I mean, the people I know who like themselves - I don't want to see them!

Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried.