I make every movie like it's the last one. "If this was the last movie, what decision would I make?" That's how I make my decisions.

Everything had been done long before I started making movies. I mean, there's nothing that Godard hasn't already done. You can't do a single thing that Godard hasn't already thought of. And so you struggle to do something that is not predictable.

I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.

That's why my attitude, even on my larger-scale movies, is to make them cheap. The less these things cost, the better for everybody.

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but thats not reality, its just another aesthetic form of fiction.

We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.

To me the director’s job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.