In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.

I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing.

My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.

I see Macbeth as a young, open-faced warrior, who is gradually sucked into a whirpool of events because of his ambition. When he meets the weird sisters and he…

Moscow... how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! what store of riches it imparts!

She's a reflection of my fascination with the diversity of America- she's totally normal in New York, but a freak in Texas. There are dozens of such clashes in…

Proverb - a definition: The wisdom of many and the wit of one.