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

The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it.

I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.

If Gary Cooper and Henry Fonda had a baby, it would be Matthew Modine.

I don't like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what's even worse, of being quoted exactly.

The feel of the experience is the important thing, not the ability to verbalize or analyze it.

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