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

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

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

All artists are anarchists in some way - some more extreme than others, but it's something that I think artists are supposed to do. We're supposed to present a different angle on everything, and I certainly think it is [art] as much as poetry, in my opinion.

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.

You can't legislate sobriety.

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