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.

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.

Filmmakers tell actors to adjust their body language, and the famous presence of the actor is his or her body language. That is what makes them special and a movie star. An actor's capital is his body.

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

I heard that Trump said even smelling a book makes him feel tired.

Whoever came up first with that saying a picture is worth a thousand words didn't understand the first thing about either one.