You Must Be Willing To Risk Everything

We Don't Take The Time To Be Vulnerable With Each Other

My Films Are Expressive Of A Culture That Has Had The Possibility Of Attaining Material Fulfillment While At The Same Time Finding Itself Unable To Accomplish The Simple Business Of Conducting Human Lives. We Have Been Sold A Bill Of Goods As A Substitute For Life. What Is Needed Is Reassurance In Human Emotions; A Re-evaluation Of Our Emotional Capacities.

During The Actual Filming, I’m Not Really Listening To Dialogue. I’m Watching To See If The Actors Are Communicating Something And Expressing Something. I’m Just Watching A Conversation. You’re Not Aware Of Exactly What People Are Saying. You Are Aware Of What They Are Intending And What Kind Of Feeling Is Going On In That Scene.

I’m Very Worried About The Depiction Of Women On The Screen. It’s Gotten Worse Than Ever And It’s Related To Their Being Either High- Or Low-class Concubines, And The Only Question Is When Or Where They Will Go To Bed, With Whom, And How Many. There’s Nothing To Do With The Dreams Of Women, Or Of Woman As The Dream, Nothing To Do With The Quirky Part Of Her, The Wonder Of Her.

We Only Have Two Hours To Change People's Lives.