Roger Ebert was the last mammoth alive who was holding the flag for real movies and moviemakers.

I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.

I think Irish people started to move to the United States - many things that were of consequence. And it was a tiny and mild event compared to what had happened 74,000 years ago.

You will learn more by walking from Canada to Guatemala than you will ever learn in film school.

Clive [Oppenheimer] and I figured out that I'm the only one probably in the film industry who is clinically sane. I say that as a joke, but there's a grain of truth to it. I'm not a stupid daredevil who jumps into the crater of the volcano to get the closest close-up, I'm not one of those. And you have to be aware that you have a crew with you and you are responsible.

I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.