I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.

I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.

That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.

I don't want to live anywhere where I'm breathing two million cars' fumes and paying a zillion dollars for the right to be totally hassled.

I'm in a house where if the washing machine shuts off, it sings a song. If iPad gets a message, it sings a song. I'm living in a real postmodern time - every single thing sings to you to tell you it's started, it's stopped, you've got a message, you didn't get a message.