"We teach our boys to firebomb villages, but we won't let them write fuck on the side of their planes because it's obscene."

"I believe that filmmaking - as, probably, is everything - is a game you should play with all your cards, and all your dice, and whatever else you've got. So, each time I make a movie, I give it everything I have. I think everyone should, and I think everyone should do everything they do that way."

"The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy."

"Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film."

"Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos."

"Everything I do is personal. I have never made a movie that didn't have very strong personal resonance."

"I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians."

"You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost."

"We want you to take from us. We want you, at first, to steal from us, because you can't steal. You will take what we give you and you will put it in your own voice and that's how you will find your voice."