The word Amendment itself is an encouraging thing, isn't it? Because an amendment, it tells of a system of government that allows for the improvement of itself. Just move forward a little bit, one day at a time.

I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way on the details that are not at all at the centre of the work.

I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.

I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing.

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing