One of the things that I do like about filmmaking is that you find out how to solve new problems.

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

The secret of the creative life is how to feel at ease with your own embarrassment. We're all in the dirty laundry business and we're being paid to take risks and look silly. Race car drivers get paid to risk their lives in a more concrete way; we get paid to risk our lives in an emotional way.

You think it's a blessing to know what God wants? I'll tell you what he wants. He wants to push me over! Can't he see what's inside of me? All my sins.

The secret of the creative life is to feel at ease with your own embarrassment.

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.

That's just my disposition - to create a situation where you have to come up with something.