Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.

You've got to love something enough to kill it.

I loved the idea of seeing the world through a boy's eyes.

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.

If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.

I have a desire to tell stories. And I'm never quite satisfied.

If I'm not complaining, I'm not having a good time, hah hah!

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.

There are times when you have to face your enemies, sit down and deal with it.

It is not the most brilliant that excel in film, but the most patient!

Watching a Kubrick film is like gazing up at a mountaintop. You look up and wonder, how could anyone have climbed that high?

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

Being independent... is being innovative out of inspiration as well as necessity.

The first element that I connected with was the emotion. Sorry, that's how it goes.

I wouldn't presume to be God's point of view.

I'm not a Hollywood director. I'm an in spite of Hollywood director.