For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.

I prefer the material woman.

If you want to propose marriage to your girlfriend and you live in England and she is in Sicily, do the decent thing and walk down there. Travelling by car or aeroplane wouldn't be right at such a moment.

[Internet] is amazing as much as human beings can be amazing, and it's debased and depraved and vile as human beings can be.

Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

It has always been my aim to find that sort of passion and figure out how to transform it into cinema.Timothy Treadwell's footage was almost like a diary, and he had always dreamt of becoming the movie star in his own gigantic production.

I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.