在我看来，自然界是最大的兴奋来源；最大的视觉美来源；最大的智力兴趣来源。它是生命中许多让生活有价值的东西的最大来源。
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
——1997年7月30日在拉斯维加斯美国全国州长协会大会上发言
"The beauty of filmmaking is that it allows you to create worlds that don't exist."
The essence of modernity is psychologism, the experiencing and interpretation of the world in terms of the reactions of our inner life and indeed as an inner world, the dissolution of fixed contents in the fluid element of the soul, from which all that is substantive is filtered and whose forms are merely forms of motion.