I follow the rules until I go against them all..

The so-called film star's lot is an infantile and precarious one..

Today, most newcomers from film families are launched in outside films..

It's good for you to go somewhere that you wouldn't normally go..

You are someone and you have a right to your life..

I'd done "Gosford Park," a film that Julian Fellowes had written that Robert Altman directed..

When you shoot on film, you don't know whether you've got it or not until you get the film processed, and so it changes the relationship we have with….

Ain't nobody messin' with you but you.

History is at once freedom and necessity..

I love film, very, very much, and I always want to go back to it..

I'm thrilled to get hired every once in a while..

There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all th….

I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training..

The great god Pan is dead..

We all become what we pretend to be..

We are not revived because we sing; we sing because we are revived..

Leadership is more doing than dash..

The questions of economics, and how they infect, or rather how they affect intimacy. And that's probably the subject of all my films..

To be is to stand for..

If you decide to direct a film, it's because you have something to say, something to show to the audience..

Film is a battleground..