People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is.

It's a mind going over things, revisiting things, maybe trying to refine the original perception. You have to keep going a thing over in order to make sense off it.

I know the pleasure you get from making your films. The intense involvement in every aspect: the acting, the camera, the colors, the costumes, even the hair and makeup. Editing is thrilling. Everything to do with films is absorbing - everything but the money part, the business. But I'm deeply glad I've had that experience.

Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.

Each man, therefore, is the entire world, bearing within his genes a memory of all mankind. Or as Leibniz put it: ‘Every living substance is a perpetual living mirror of the universe’

...once you fell in love with her, you loved her until the day you died.

Let me tell you, there's no better medicine than a friendly card game for sloughing off the cares of a workaday world.