“I never rewatch the great films of my favorite directors because I'm afraid they won't hold up.”
“Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.”
“In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.”
“I'm not afraid of the thought of being stuck with only one other person for the rest of my life. I'm afraid that I won't be.”
“I was never afraid of getting killed and I was never afraid of losing my nerve. My kind of courage holds up best under fire; it's different dangers, more refined and insidious ones, that shake me.”
“The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because we want to flinch. The artist must go into the white hot center of himself, and our impulse when we get there is to look away and avert our eyes.”