At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. I mark only the happy hours, like the sundial, because otherwise I would have gone nuts.

I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.

If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.

I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

Cinema as a means of expression fascinates me.