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.

Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.

I like voice-over in films, and most of my films have been voice-over films.

I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much.

I'm considered to some degree a successful director working in Hollywood, making films my way but using studio financing. But with almost every single one, I get praised up the wazoo by people who never would have financed the films. It's: "Gee, this movie is so new and different - what do you want to do next?" "This." "Oh, that's too new and different."

I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film.

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.