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

"The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family."

"Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way."

"A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father."

"Each brain is exposed to different circumstances. It's very likely that your brain is unique in the history of the universe."

"We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely."

"Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadn't thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden."

"There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys."