Filmmaking is exploring. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?.

In the end of the film there is hope, ... There's beauty in ugliness. It's really important for us Latinos to acknowledge each other and not deny the….

I turned down a lot of things that were so-called commercial. You're coming out of one film, and then they want you to be in the same one..

I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form..

I have tremendous respect for film composers..

Howard Hawks said he'd like to put me in a film with Cary Grant or Humphrey Bogart. I thought, "Cary Grant-terrific! Humphrey Bogart-yucch.".

I don't think good films have messages..

I fell in love with film. I didn't start out to be a film actor. I wanted to be a theater actor..

In many ways, it is very real, because I sat there for 9 days, and it was constantly happening, and that was the 9 days of making the film. But you c….

I think Magnolia is one of the best films I've ever seen and I can say that straight and out and anybody that disagrees with me I'll fight you to the….

Film is the greatest educational medium the world has ever known..

Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that..

I see a film as a puzzle, with a beginning, middle, and end, but I like to start at the end sometimes..

I'm finding now more and more that nudity is so rarely serves the story in any film..

A good film is always nourishing. It's not about it being hopeful or bleak; it's about how it touches you, how it moves or stirs you..

When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour..

I've always felt that I've made films, period. I wanted to leave the "ghetto." And here I am, I'm out..

I think I may have been the only person to be rewarded charitably and get a tax deduction for swearing on film!.

When you see a finished film, it's very rare that it exceeds your expectations..

I am the best film director in the world..

The only music I've ever written was for a film called Frank, and the idea was that it was the worst music in the world..