I discover what my film is by embarking on the journey of making it..

It's happening right now... it's just not on film, it's not being recorded..

The director is the only person who knows what the film is about..

I ain't from Africa. I'm from St. Louis..

I would never make an artwork that I wouldn't want to make forever. Wouldn't you want to make Trash Humpers [Korine's 2009 film] forever?.

I am the least likely person in the world to be in an American football film! Which is why I couldn't say no to The Replacements; I thought it was hi….

I've been through a lot as far as love..

If I'm ever working on a set and anyone talks about a master shot, I say there is no master shot. Before I even went to film school, I learned about ….

There is no such thing, incidentally, as one kudo..

Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong..

It's always a problem with television and with films, you always shoot things out of sequence, so you just take your best stab at every moment. You c….

The films you're making have to be faithful to the material..

And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong be….

Chanel liberated women: Saint Laurent gave them power..

I've never been fired in my life. From anything. I've never failed at anything I've tried..

Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody..

Someone else's success is not your failure..

I always go in very emotionally when I'm doing music. Sad or happy, I'm always into it..

But films should be voyeuristic. What else is a film if you’re not snooping into somebody else’s lives?.

I don't know what the character is going to be. We sit down and we create a character, and all of the characters in all of my films are made like tha….

We all see only that which we are trained to see..