“I can only speak for myself. But what I write and how I write is done in order to save my own life. And I mean that literally.”

In order to find reality, each must search for his own universe, look for the details that contribute to this reality7 that one feels under the surface of things.

We’ve just kept the ship running y’know what I mean? You change engineers from time to time and as long as everybody coming aboard knows what direction the ship is, everything’s alright.

I would just like to tell my fans how much it means to me to make a movie that they like.

Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development.

During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring concentratedly at the set.

The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.

I often say to my assistants, “Never trust anybody,” but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.

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