It's almost scary how stylish things can look if you take the color out - how much more you see the essence of things and how much more something can appear elegant.

Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed.

Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie.

I think sometimes you have to just imagine something that looks pretty impossible. By imagining something that is impossible, automatically you wish you could make it possible.

The most important question for me when I begin working on a film is where to start. For a book, what makes you convinced there is a story that is worthwhile?

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

Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists.