Omaha, like Rome, is built on seven hills.

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?

See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!

Jesuits encourage an intellectual rigor in a way that I like.

When you watch a movie, you don't want to feel like a machine made it. You want to feel a soul.

Rome was not built in one day.