Director Quotes

I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.

I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.

I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.

I don't care if I get $50m to do a film.

I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.

I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.

Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it's like, 'Yes, let's do it.'

But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.

As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

As an old-time New Yorker, it's not that I miss the '70s and '80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there was a certain kind of energy that exists when people can live for nothing.

A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.

Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.

No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.

Fate is written in the face.

A different language is a different vision of life.

A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.

God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.

Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

You exist only in what you do.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.