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 ….

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..

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

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doin….

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

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….

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..

There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing….

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….

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

There's a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you..

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….

The most important thing is the script..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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