Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.

Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book.

If you know exactly what your character knows, its a drama.

I feel like movies when they work they'll find an audience.

If the part is really good of course I would like to do it.

I had been a college teacher. I had taught Greek mythology.

There's only one prima donna in my pictures, and that's me!

I feel like I studied anthropology in college for a reason.

For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English.

For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.

I wanted to make a movie about the arbitrary nature of love.

I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.

If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.

Since we had little money and few documents, we had nothing.

Cinema is universal, beyond flags and borders and passports.

I define myself from a vision, from a point of view of life.

San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.

Media Asia has great partners in China, Japan and Hollywood.

I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

The lower the cost of the film, the more you can experiment.

The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.

I like people that like to work the way that I like to work.

The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.

True happiness is not out there. True happiness lies within.

Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.

Personally, I have nightmares about the unstoppable monster.

People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie.

Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

I make pictures to tell a story, to tell lies, and to amuse.

Real talent is a mystery, and people who've got it, know it.

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

Gentrification can be a plague, as it eats up neighborhoods.

I want to diagnose the audience a bit and then offer a cure.

I think the greatest giant insect movie ever made is 'Them!'

Sometimes, the people who are helping you can drop the ball.

Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.

I think that cinema has always progressed through exchanges.

When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting.

Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.

There is a new world coming and this new world is very rude.

I have gone insane. I won't be talking with you for a while.

I think you can only be nostalgic for something you've lost.

As much as I love Antonioni films, I love the Three Stooges.

Obsession can be a great thing or it can also destroy lives.

One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen.

As far as socially redeeming value, I hope I don't have any.

It's always fun watching new actors and new voices come out.

I didn't really get any rigorous background in film history.

Pixar is filled with people who don't get rid of their toys.

I came from a classic, literate, intellectual Jewish family.

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