The animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to do.

In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible.

The work that I'm proudest of is the work that I'm most afraid of.

I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to scholars, historians and your own teachers.

I have always admired him (Bergman), and I wish I could be an equally good filmmaker as he is, but it will never happen. His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience

You never really know how good of a leader you are until there is something there is lead us to, toward or through or to overcome.

I had to get over my fear of running through the world naked and learn to say 'take me or leave me.'