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.

There's no escape. I'm God's only man.

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

Words are a completely different form of expression. The word P-E-N-I-S is an entirely different form of communication than a photograph of the same thing. H

Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors.

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