“You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.”

“Film is, to me, just unimportant. But people are very important.”

“You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.”

“No matter how old you get if you can keep the desire to be creative you're keeping the man-child alive.”

“No matter how old you get if you can keep the desire to be creative you're keeping the man-child alive.”

“I’m very worried about the depiction of women on the screen. It’s gotten worse than ever and it’s related to their being either high- or low-class concubines, and the only question is when or where they will go to bed, with whom, and how many. There’s nothing to do with the dreams of women, or of woman as the dream, nothing to do with the quirky part of her, the wonder of her.”