The unconscious is our best collaborator.

I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition.

Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone the police and report, There's a naked person outside!

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

It's not a filmmaker's job to explain his technique but to tell his story the best way he can.

All the theories that acting is reacting to imaginary circumstances as though they are real, and directing is turning psychology into behavior, those are all stabs at something that can't be taught. All the great actors can't talk about what they do, and they don't want to begin to talk about it. They just do it.

I love the editing process of making movies. I just wish that life had one.