"I'm never bothered that people say I don't make films 'from life' and that I have 'nothing to say.' I don't try to say anything but to create characters and to tell stories out of which meaning can ap…"

"I don't like to be PC. I like to be myself."

"You don't need proof when you have instinct."

"I don't do drugs. I don't drink. I don't smoke. I just make movies."

"To me they're all living inside of this one universe. And it isn't [pointing out the window] out there. Well, it's a little bit out there, and it's also there, too [points at his TV], in the movies, a…"