“Every time, I try to make something different.”

Everything was happening all the time. You never needed television.

When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.

Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.

I’ve been following what’s happening in Colombia because it’s the country of my childhood.

I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality.

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

Hallucinatory – that’s just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?

We have absolutely done as much work as we can on finding out things like that and we’ll try to get all the information that we can as that would apply to any current situation, which I can’t talk about.

I’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.

Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning.

Every Day Is for the Thief is a vivid, episodic evocation of the truism that you can’t go home again; but that doesn’t mean you’re not free to try.

I genuinely try to make movies I’d want to go and see, movies that are a bit more challenging.

Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it.

I don’t just try to be funny.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.