The clock is impotent; mechanical time does not affect those living in an eternal present.

I get bored very easily. I find most movies boring. I go to movies and ask, "How do they stay awake making this?"

Let's just shoot in black and white. Don't explain why. Have no reason for it. Just do it because it's interesting.

Once you have a situation that is fresh, then you sort of believe in it and it becomes normal. So you do end up with protagonists that haven't been in other movies before.

I want to be happy; why do I do things that make me unhappy?

Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors.

One of the things that I do like about filmmaking is that you find out how to solve new problems.

I don't think it's very useful to open wide the door for young artists; the ones who break down the door are more interesting.

Anything that doesn't bore me I think is doable because it's keeping me awake.

Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself.

There's no escape. I'm God's only man.

Don't ever let the viewer settle in and get ahead of you.

The secret of the creative life is to feel at ease with your own embarrassment.

Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.

Most of us live our lives devoid of cinematic moments.

I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.

So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.