I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors.
I quite like some of the movies that have many characters in them.
A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars.
When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.
The day I can't walk is the day I quit movies.
I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.
Charlie Kaufman: Where's the van? Have they gone?
Charlie: Lookin' great, Flo. Floris: "Lookin' grateful"?
I'm still very critical of myself in film.
That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.
Korean cinema is very improvisational, and there is a unique power that stems from this.
There's a Zen to acting, by being in the moment. That's where the power is.
I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.
Nowadays the audience has changed. No one can anticipate the audience.
The County Jail looked like a tall, forbidding elementary school. Seven stories of dirty brown brick, one hundred years old and now operating at 330 percent of capacity.
The seed of a blue lupin will usually produce a blue lupin. But the seed of a blue-eyed man may produce a brown-eyed bore...especially if his wife has a taste for gigolos.
I see something of a comrade in you. You like a book. Silent revelation on a page pleases you better than a self-bolstering display of verbal spillage. What do you see in me?
Growing up is made up of a million small moments in time, and one of the most painful is the moment you're severed from the whole, when you realise that your parent is complicated, and fallible and human.
Business after all is a form of warfare; you bring all your available weapons to bear. If you don't you're a fool. ("Jane Brown's Body")
The French doctor - the French, they are a very logical race and make good doctors - says: "M'sieu, they have all been on the wrong track - ("Jane Brown's Body")
