"The weird world rolls on..." meaning that through all the ups and downs, all the travails that we go through, all the horrors, all the wars, all the deaths, all the cruelties, there's still something that keeps us wanting to wake up the next morning and go on with our lives - to make children, to fall in love, to continue humanity.

I was extremely shy. And I simply didn't know how to go about it. It seemed a lot easier to write than to make films. All I needed was a pencil and a piece of paper, whereas filmmaking was something I had no access to.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.

We're outsiders, and so when we walk through the city, we're there and not there at the same time, participating and observing simultaneously.

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.