"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

"I think that a preoccupation with originality of form is more or less a fruitless thing. A truly original person with a truly original mind will not be able to function in the old form and will simply…"

"You can't make a film without being a bit of a dictator. You have to be able to say, 'This is what I want,' and everyone else has to follow."

"The most important thing for me is to try to make films that are interesting to me, and that I would want to see."

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."