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Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.

Waiting for the horror is almost more frightening than actually seeing it. Just the pending dread.

This life is a gift, and to reject that gift or abuse that gift is not human and not worthy of us.

I think I'm in the majority of Americans. I believe that I am in the mainstream of middle America.

If there is something that determines my motivation in the work I do, it's the sense of injustice.

Oh yes, I've been approached to do all sorts of nonsense. How about a remake of 'West Side Story?'

1936 is a very important year: a golden time for martial arts, right before the Japanese invasion.

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing.

If a young woman is looking at the landscape of Hollywood, what she sees is almost only challenges.

I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed.

sometimes I was so bored that I started arguments just to experience the rush of almost losing him.

I would rather spend my entire life doing nothing than have my name attached to something mediocre.

The perfect story is one you can retell in three minutes, and every single sentence is interesting.

It's interesting that gay men and young women have been the twin engines of the Bettie [Page] cult.

In some states, you can vote a straight party ticket, but you can't vote for individual candidates.

I drive an American car. It's a Chrysler. That's not an endorsement. It's more like a cry for pity.

That's what as an artist you always try to do. To try to be a sharper mind than the average person.

I admire Akira Kurosawa. I have a deep admiration for him and I would love to make films like that.

Live life before making movies, because you cannot make films about life, without having lived one.

Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.

Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension.

I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry.

I just always think, 'Do I like it?' And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.

What unifies every part of my journey is I always lead with my curiosity, obsession, or fascination.

I had maybe heard 'The Times Are A-Changing' on the radio, but I had no idea who Dylan was. No idea.

If you put yourself in a group of people you cannot work with it's obviously going to be a disaster.

John Facenda could read a laundry list and make it sound like the Constitution of the United States.

You can't help but reveal your bias, and you can't but invest personally in any story that you tell.

Having been in the military myself, there is an awful moment when you're in this moment of conflict.

It is a reality. People are being victimized or are being targeted to be victims each and every day.

Survivors are so often re-victimized by a system that demands they prove their purity and innocence.

I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very human.

I've never thought of myself as an actor, so somebody recognizing me for that would be a real shock.

As long as I stay true to what I believe is a good movie and what is my vision, that's all I can do.

Never seek financial independence in independent cinema since independent cinema doesn't make money.

Life is complicated, and art has the right to be complicated, too. I don't like films that simplify.

We are artists. We are all subjective people; we have a point of view. It doesn't mean we are right.

There's a saying among prospectors: 'Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find.'

Pleasure can also be a mirror of the anxiety we feel in everyday life, it can have a message inside.

I was a happy man, never working. Sometimes I saw days with no money to eat. It was not so difficult.

To us, 'The Amazing Race' takes the whole world and turns it into a giant game. What could be better?

I'm sure the gasoline companies would love to keep their 100 percent monopoly on transportation fuel.

My dentist said to me the other day: I've enough problems in my life, so why should I see your films?

I've always had great independence on everything I've done. Nobody's ever told me not to do anything.

When you make movies the way I do, you invest everything you have. And you do it like a crazy maniac.

I do love the young adult novels as a form and genre, because it has a purity of intention and heart.

A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

I deserved kisses. I deserved to be treated like a piece of meat but also respected for my intellect.

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