Director Quotes

In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form.

I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.

I've held onto little musical sketches that I thought could be useful, and the more time that I spend doing them for each film, then the more I have to draw on.

I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way.

I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker.

I want the score to have a really big voice.

I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.

I had no plans to be a director.

I am intrigued enough to want to continue, and also to try and work with companies like Sony on modifying the cameras and making them more user-friendly and efficient.

Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free.

Each film is different. Time Code was very quick - a matter of months. Miss Julie has been on my shelf as a script for some seven or eight years. But then the shooting process was very quick - 16 days.

But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.

There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there.

The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.

Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.

Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?

It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.

I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.

I'm about my characters.

I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.

I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.

I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.