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

The reason I never wrote a novel is that I don't have what it takes to write characters, so they would all be talking differently. I lack that ability. If I were writing, they would all talk like me, and that's no good.

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

The last adventure left on this planet is creativity because we've been everywhere. There's not much left to explore. But there's a lot of exploration left in the human imagination.

I think seeing happens partly through the eyes, but not entirely.

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.

Photographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories.