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

Don't ever let the viewer settle in and get ahead of you.

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.

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

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

I would not have made any of my films or written scripts such as Taxi Driver had it not been for Ingmar Bergman, What he has left is a legacy greater than any other director.... I think the extraordinary thing that Bergman will be remembered for, other than his body of work, was that he probably did more than anyone to make cinema a medium of personal and introspective value.

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