The beauty of cinema is that it can take you anywhere.

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.

我创作艺术不是为了名声或金钱。我创作是因为我必须这样做。

To write is to reach that point where only language acts, 'performs', and not 'me'.

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

Security is sleeping in the back seat of the car...When you're a little kid, and you've ben somewhere with your Mom and Dad, and it's night, and you're riding home in the car, you can sleep in the back seat...You don't have to worry about anything...Your Mom and Dad are in the front seat, and they do all the worrying...But it doesn't last! Suddenly, you're grown up, and it can never be that way again!

我不是专横，我就是老板。