“Film is, to me, just unimportant. But people are very important.”

“Im very worried about the depiction of women on the screen. Its gotten worse than ever and its related to their being either high- or low-class concubines, and the only question is when or where th...”

“No matter how old you get if you can keep the desire to be creative you're keeping the man-child alive.”

“You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.”

“I’ve never seen an exploding helicopter. I’ve never seen anybody go and blow somebody’s head off. So why should I make films about them? But I have seen people destroy themselves in the smallest wa...”

“I’m very worried about the depiction of women on the screen. It’s gotten worse than ever and it’s related to their being either high- or low-class concubines, and the only question is when or where...”

“The dangerous temptation of wildlife films is that they can lull us into thinking we can get by without the original models -- that we might not need animals in the flesh.”

“Women think in [Douglas] Sirks films. Something which has never struck me with other directors. None of them. Usually women are always reacting, doing what women are supposed to do, but in Sirk the...”

“The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second”