This myth that America has this atomic bomb that makes us right, it makes us good, it makes us set the agenda for the world. Everywhere, we can go global, we determine.

There is this thing about time that you can't see at the time you're at.

But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.

I think our life is a series of adventures.

I was lost, and that war [in Vietnam] was very alienating - not that I was against it or for it, but I was just lost after that war. As were many Americans.

We should look to (Castro) as one of the Earth's wisest people, one of the people we should consult.

I make my films like you're going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.