We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

Understand life's mysteries, - as mysteries to be lived.

I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile.

You can't legislate sobriety.

The thing that's interesting about wire walking is that we never get to see it other than looking up. It's like a circus thing. It's a guy on a wire.

I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television.

As a filmmaker, you're always supposed to be with your characters, in all movies, even if they're villains.