I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.

I've never wanted to do something where I'd berate the audience.

I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do!

If you spend a whole afternoon just eating popcorn and watching football, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if that's all you do, you get swept along with the tide, without any idea of where you're going.

Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land.

Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.

Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?