[Making movies] you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality.

One does not have to make Frank Capra movies to like people.

You either connect or you don't connect. It's not the end of the world. It's a movie.

All my life I've always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.

I've never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.