Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.

People go to the movies to watch a film and all they're thinking about is the actress's cellulite they saw in a magazine.

I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'

I think being self-referential is really narcissistic. Who's to say anybody's even thinking of you that much? But some of these movies that I've done people still recite lines to me even 20 years later.

Sexiness particularly in movies is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's it's I don't know but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy then it's not.

Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking 'I'm a bad guy.' They think they're the right guy.

I'm thinking to myself I just love doing the art it takes me a morning to do.

It's disrespectful to tell the French in the morning that you're going to reduce the debt in the evening that you're not going to make any savings and the next morning after thinking about it that you're going to spend more.

Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it.