New York was the only really hostile city. Perhaps there is a certain element of the lumpen literati that is so dogmatically atheist and materialist and Earth-bound that it finds the grandeur of space and the myriad mysteries of cosmic intelligence anathema.
You're constantly changing man. But the film's not changing. The film stays the same. That's the beautiful aspect of it.
Don't get obsessed with not liking a movie.
You either connect or you don't connect. It's not the end of the world. It's a movie.
Regret isn't going to get me anywhere. It's like being obsessed with something. It doesn't bring you anywhere.
I used and abused drugs and alcohol. When I stopped doing that it became a lot clearer that life goes from inside to giving as opposed to taking and destroying.
It's a passion when you're doing it for other people and you're doing it for the people around you making the film and the people who are going to see the film, and the giving. When you start thinking about you doing it for some sort of self-gain, then I think it becomes an obsession. It becomes a negative experience.
Everything has changed, but the process of telling a story has not changed. It's like cavemen sitting around the fire; somebody's going to tell the story. Somebody is drawing on the wall. You're communicating. You're trying to learn and teach at the same time. You're your own student and you're your own teacher, but the process is of the communicating.
Everybody has their black moments.
My period as a young teenager when you really listen to music so you can get understand a little bit more about what the music is was, say, 1965 to 1968. I was just lucky to be in those times.
A film needs more than you can give it in a lifetime.
I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.
[Making movies] you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality.
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