Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that's everywhere around the world.

If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.

Even if we die at 100, we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.

I'm hoping one day I can make one really good film.

Acting is a lot easier than people think it is.

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

In a general sense, to convert any short story, novel, play, or opera into a movie, you have to re-rig it. Even though they're all narratives over time, they're very different forms.