I like the probability of the impossible.

Fear has many faces.

And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.

We can't get our youth back.

Oscars are won with two or three shots only, because if it’s really beautifully photographed, you don’t really notice it until the astounding moment emphasizes it.

I’ve always thought there was something very marvelous and magical about mirrors, and that they are connected to memory as well.

I’ve always felt that, although Truffaut was greatly revered and admired, at the same time, in terms of film and how much he loved film, he was underestimated.

Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn’t control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates.

When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier, I immediately ask, ‘Why?’

Movies which set out to be ‘commercial’ usually have an artificial look about them-a certain waxlike quality. They allow for no failure, no moment of mistake.