My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture.

New York was big enough and wide enough that it allowed for reasonably eccentric people like me to thrive. It was a perfect place for me.

Movies without meaningful dialogue play well all over the world. The Apostle is probably the best movie of the year, but it won't do squat in Korea.

Style tells you a lot more about the truth than substance, because it comes at the truth in an oblique way, it comes in on a slant, it doesn't tell you what it is. It's unexpected and it makes you laugh and think.

I couldn't sit down and write a novel or a short story - even now - because of my dyslexia. But I learned narration through movies.

People who go for humor are wonderful because they do great humor. People who go for wit and end up with humor are people who have made a mistake.

Style lasts forever and taste doesn't.