Now I see it clearly. My whole life has pointed in one direction. I see that now. There never has been any choice for me.

The clock is impotent; mechanical time does not affect those living in an eternal present.

Let's just shoot in black and white. Don't explain why. Have no reason for it. Just do it because it's interesting.

There's something wrong - the performance, the weather, the set design, the lighting. Something is not working. And so you say, "Give me 10 minutes." When you're first directing, you're terrified. But when you've been in that situation enough times, you know that under pressure, it will come to you.

I could be just a writer very easily. I am not a writer. I am a screenwriter, which is half a filmmaker... But it is not an art form, because screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

I was looking for people who didn't have any preconceptions about films, what I call the "post-rules" generation.

There's the generation that made the rules, the generation that codified them. The generation that broke them - that's mine. The generation that laughed at them - that's Tarantino's. And now there's a generation that doesn't know that there were any.