What I was actually trying to do in my early movies was show how people can meet other people and what they can do and what they can say to each other. That was the whole idea: two people getting acquainted.

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person. People are only glamorous if you don't see them. Like the movies used to make people years ago. There is something about people on screen that makes them so special; when you see them in person, they are so different and the whole illusion is gone..

Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said, "I knew he loved me when de didn't come in my mouth.

The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will

The idea of America is so wonderful because the more equal something is, the more American it is

I do mostly portraits. So it's just people's faces, not really any ideas.