I like poetry, but honestly, I like dramatic literature more. If I had to pick between Rumi and Dostoevsky, I would pick Dostoevsky without even thin….

I believe in the utmost importance of one human being's actions toward another. This is actually what I believe in. How we handle one another, that's….

The people who run the major banks have MBAs and wear suits. And when those people in suits come to the homes of people who don't have a high school ….

I'm not going to read reviews like, "I have to do these things." Any good criticism makes you think about your own films and about cinema in general..

I never say "Action" or "Cut." Never. I think that would disturb the life from happening in and around everything..

You have to let life come and go..

I think happy and hope is more hopeful when you acknowledge that there's awful things too..

We're living in a world that says that if you engage in mass fraud, you'll be rewarded, but if you go down the street and steal an orange juice, you ….

We're living in a time period where if a kid is on a plastic scooter that's one inch off the ground, mom and dad think he should have a helmet on. I ….

So much can be learned by any filmmaker by studying his work, in terms of blocking, staging, editing and sound..

The job of the writer and the filmmaker is not to impose his vision on the reality, but to be inspired by the reality and create a vision out of that..

The actors come and you start seeing things happen for real..

It's hard for me to say you have to accept that the world is meaningless and the landscape is there before and after. That's not something we learn m….

Since Hollywood seems to be more interested in people wearing tights and using powers, there seems to be a fertile ground for movies about real human….

Most of the projects aren't that interesting anymore. There used to be a day when the studios made amazing films, and they were about human beings..

I like to give the actors the freedom, and they know they have the freedom, to change anything they want at any time..

Sometimes we have dreams, but we just can't make them. That's normal..