You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change; you change.

You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.

I like that the best about DVD: how small it is.

You shouldn't dream your film, you should make it!

I wouldn't have filmed The Color Purple if the book had been a big fat novel. The reason I read it is because it is thin.

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.

You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is going to be relevant, if not to yourself, to the movies you make.