"If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio."

"My kind of director is an actor-director who writes."

"Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch."

"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations."

"When ambition meets humility, we find that every choice we make paints the canvas of our life."

"Wisdom principle 94 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 97."

"True life is lived when tiny changes occur."

"The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life."