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

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!

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

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.

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.

Music and film are inseparable. They always have been and always will be.

If you don’t like the films of Samuel Fuller , then you just don’t like cinema.

The most important thing is the script.

When I'm making a film, I'm the audience.

I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.

There's a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you.