A book is a book, but a movie is a movie. The more faithful you are, the more you'll come up with Harry Potter #1 and #2, which are like filmed books on tape. They're so petrified of turning off the readers that they make no concessions to the fact that they're trying to make a piece of cinema.

I want studios to be financing director-driven, auteurist cinema, as they did in the '70s. I think it's starting to happen now. Plus, because of how our world has changed politically, I think audiences are demanding more realism. We need to have more stuff in our culture about what is really going on right now.

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

When I'm introduced as a two-time Oscar winner, I'm happy that a film of mine has found an audience and some acclaim because that keeps me in business. A filmmaker's greatest concern is the ability to make future films, so it helps keep me in business.

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

There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.

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