I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms.

One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: You are.

You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

Everybody I know who goes out and plays a little softball, they break their leg.

And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.

When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.