- [on "ruining" footage to create the look of time-ravaged 1920s newsreels] "The lack of perfection, that's the hardest quality of all, because you're fighting your instincts. You're trained to want to do things perfectly."
- [commenting on digital filming] The organics aren't the same. The interpretive levels suffer. Digital is another form of recording an image, but it won't replace thinking.
- I wouldn't say my style is naturalistic. I would say it's reconstructed reality that embellishes what is already there.
- About Manhattan (1979): Woody and I both see New York as a black and white town, and I love shooting wide-screen anamorphic. Put the two together and look in the right direction, and you get the romantic reality of Manhattan.
- You can make the same thing ugly or beautiful, just by choosing what you shoot.
- [on his retirement] "I got tired of trying to get actors out of trailers, and standing in the rain."
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