I Like Audiences To Crane Their Necks.

Happy Endings Are Absolutely Ludicrous, They're Not True At All. We See The Guy Carry The Girl Across The Threshold And Everybody Lives Happily Ever After -- That's Bullshit. Three Weeks Later He's Beating Her Up And She's Suing For Divorce And He's Got Cancer.

What Is An Ending? There's No Such Thing. Death Is The Only Ending.

People Have Asked Me Throughout The Years Which Directors Have Influenced Me. I Don't Know Their Names, Because I Was Mostly Influenced When I'd See A Film And Think, "man, I Want To Be Sure To Never Do Anything Like That." So I Never Learned Their Names. It Wasn't A Matter Of Copying Or Emulating Somebody I Admired. It Was Getting Rid Of A Lot Of Stuff.

We Make Too Much Of The Good And Too Much Of The Bad.

I Want To See Something That I've Never Seen Before, So How Can I Tell That Actor What That Is? I'm Not Trying To Construct A Document Or Situation That Is What I Want, Because What I Want Is Something New To Me.