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I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.

There's a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. 'The protagonist must be sympathetic!' they say. Whatever that means. I never engage in that discussion. I never use that word, 'sympathetic.' I just know 'interesting.'

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Omaha, like Rome, is built on seven hills.

If you're trying to recreate life, the life that you best know is the one you grew up with.

In a sense, 'Schmidt' is the most Omaha of my films. But have I gotten it right? I'm not sure. Did Fellini get Rome right? Did Ozu get Tokyo right?

I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.

Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.

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.

I'm hoping one day I can make one really good film.

I never wanted money worries to slow me down or make me take a job I didn't want.

I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.

Well, that's what life is - this collection of extraordinarily ordinary moments. We just need to pay attention to them all. Wake up and pay attention to how beautiful it all is.

If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.

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

You look at how many years you have left, and you start to think: 'How many more films do I have in me?'

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.

They say you can do honest, sincere work for decades, but you're given in general a 10-year period when what you do touches the zeitgeist - when you're relevant. And I'm aware of that, and I don't want my time...

I want all of my films to belong to me.

My flag is always flying. My shingle is always out. I'm always looking for movie ideas.

The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas.

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