Don't worry about getting final cut, worry about making the best possible cut.

It's a great lesson in modesty that you realize you're illiterate in a field that you think you're an expert in.

There are a lot of things that dancers can do that actors cannot and actors can do that dancers cannot.

Loving photography and wanting to be a painter, it all ended up in the process of filmmaking. It's strange professionally be to connected because it connects you to architecture, it connects you to painting, it connects you to writers, to actors. It connects you to really all of the arts.

I sometimes feel fiction is the ideal preservation for real memories. Fiction is such a good place to keep things.

Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.

The most political decision you make is where you direct people's eyes. In other words, what you show people, day in and day out, is political...And the most politically indoctrinating thing you can do to a human being is to show him, every day, that there can be no change.