"I feel that cinema is my country. But it's not my business."

"There's a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don't meet the right crazy people, you can't do it."

"My films start with images, a few images and a few feelings, and I try to edit them together to see the correspondence between these images and these feelings."

"When I was 16, I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh, how wonderful; I'm ready.'"

"I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before."

"Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames."

"The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow soon after."

"Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint."