The most important thing is the script..

You have to put yourself in a situation, a lifestyle, that makes you do the work. Even if it's a monastery..

I always tell the younger filmmakers and students: Do it like the painters used to...Study they old masters. Enrich your palette. Expand the canvas.….

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it..

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out..

Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions..

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard..

We’re face to face with images all the time in a way that we never have been before... Young people need to understand that not all images are there ….

When I'm making a film, I'm the audience..

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting.

In truly great films - the ones that people need to make, the ones that start speaking through them, the ones that keep moving into territory that is….

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel..

Always stay open to surprise..

The first element that I connected with was the emotion. Sorry, that's how it goes..

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….

Music and film are inseparable. They always have been and always will be..

I look for a thematic idea running through my movies and I see that it's the outsider struggling for recognition. I realize that all my life I've bee….

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue..

If you don’t like the films of Samuel Fuller , then you just don’t like cinema..

I loved the idea of seeing the world through a boy's eyes..

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it..