I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.

You begin a film more with questions than with direct intentions. It's more of an exploration and discovery.

When I'm shooting, I don't care who the star is. I have an actor playing a part, and I'm serving the script, not serving anyone's career.

As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films.

Some people have proposed universal basic income, UBI, basically making sure that everybody gets a certain amount of money to live off of. I think that's a wonderful idea. The problem is, we haven't been able to guarantee universal healthcare in this country.

I have a 200-song catalogue in the streets and I never got any money off that.

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

To be able to keep the promise I made to God, I think that keeps me going. No matter how much the money had been, I would have always fulfilled my promise, as that's the way I am.