Year Quotes

You’d be waiting 30 or 40 years for me to build a table. I have more than two left hands.

Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind.

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

That’s the great thing about New Year’s, you get to be a year older.

I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.

Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.

You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.

By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing.

There were years when Hitchcock was like a master to me, but now I think he’s so artificial. I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I’m not impressed by any technicality.

I go back to many films that I really love.