“The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.”

If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take ‘myself,’ subtract ‘movies,’ and the result is ‘zero.’

I suppose all of my films have a common theme. If I think about it, though, the only theme I can think of is really a question: Why can’t people be happier together?

When I start on a film I always have a number of ideas about my project. Then one of them begins to germinate, to sprout, and it is this, which I take and work with.

When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.

My films come from my need to say a particular thing at a particular time. The beginning of any film for me is this need to express something.

I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.

To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.

It’s easy to explain the psychological state of a character at a particular moment, but it’s very difficult to describe it through the delicate nuances of action and dialogue. Yet it is not impossible.

While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.

They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can’t possibly make a good film.

That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.

For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water.

He is still my favourite author, and he is the one – I still think – who writes most honestly about human existence.

The only difference with wrestling is we’re like a live performance. So we’re feeding off the audience and if they do’t like something, they can let us know immediately.

Journalism is very much public writing, writing with an audience in mind, writing for publication, and frequently writing quickly.

You’re constantly growing and you’re constantly progressing and changing up you’re style and gauging an audience to make sure that audience is enjoying what you’re doing.

I think if you create something and you get an audience for it, then the monetization part is really secondary.

You can’t control the audience. When you’re on the air and they’re not coming to the party, it’s time to shut down the party.

There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.

That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.

Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.