Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.
Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five ye...
Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.
I don't like being in houses alone.
Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.'
A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.
Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.
There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.
Movies touch our hearts and awaken our vision, and change the way we see things. They take us to other places, they open doors and minds. Movies are the memories of our life time, we need to keep them...
There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing when to accept their criticism, knowing when to sa...
The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.
I mean, music totally comes from your soul.
Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.
I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days.