It was repugnant, but it was the only way to communicate.

It was repugnant, but it was the only way to communicate.

I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment.

Since we had little money and few documents, we had nothing.

Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make.

I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.

The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback.

I'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea.

Oh, yes, that never happened to me in my life before. It was a risky film, and I warned the producer.

There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.

I never thought of becoming a director. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me - I still watch silent films.

That's easy to answer: I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.

So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

You are never too old to learn

My son was autistic, and he suffered from seizure disorder every 5 to 10 days. He would suffer a seizure that would last 45 seconds to a minute and sleep for 12 hours.

Portland's as good a place as any. The food is good, the people are nice. I'm in love with it.

Adopting means opening your home, and heart, to a life you've never known. But there is nothing as richly rewarding as being an adoptive parent.

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

You never really shake depression and that's a tough road you have to deal with.

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

I must have been six or seven years old at the time. My family lived on the bottom floor of a two-story house on Cruger Avenue in the Bronx, and every night at 9:30, I sat by my little radio in our kitchen and listened to a half hour of Bing's records regularly spilling out over WNEW.

When I joined the music scene, a lot of big-ticket singers were not getting good work... It was a lean phase.

Beauty alone is not impressive. Put an Attitude to be attractive and add Brain to be sophisticated.

It just comes down to taste at the end of the day, and that's something you can't really analyze. Yeah, I think to have it all there is basically best, regardless of whether there's hiss there as well.

I love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point.

Owners lavish love on their pets, which is why so many go from non-aggressive pups to being out of control when they're older. People just don't realise their dog must respect them as leader of the pack.

A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men

If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.

I like 'Guys and Dolls,' 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'A Star Is Born.' When it works, a musical is an amazing thing. But it rarely works.

I'm a great believer in people and their untapped potential.

Morocco as it is is a very fine place spoiled by civilization.

The irritation level is just a lot higher.

When I'm doing a store in a country, I always like to consider the concept of the country and the city. Ask what are the clothes of the city, what does this city represent for me?

Get this, kids - how a man proposes isn't what makes him romantic. It's how a man purposes to lay down his life that makes him romantic.

I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.

Prudence is what makes someone a great commodities trader - the capacity to face reality squarely in the eye without allowing emotion or ego to get in the way. It's what is needed by every quarterback or battlefield general.