It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching.
Post 9/11, so much has changed in New York that it does not give you that homely feeling which it did before.
Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.
Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.
My films, no one else will do.
I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.