I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.

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

However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache. This shattering recognition of our mortality is at the root of far more mental illness than I suspect even psychiatrists are aware.

Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie

It's impossible to tell you what I'm going to do except to say that I expect to make the best movie ever made.

Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.