What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?

The worst thing for people to say about your movies is, "Yeah, it was pretty good, but it was too damn long.".

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

Forgiving yourself may be for many people, at least for myself, extremely difficult. And then in a larger context, I will say that I'm constantly astonished by those who pray daily, "Forgive me my sins as I forgive those who sin against me," and beat very loudly the war drum.

Cinema really lends itself well to big, archetypal stories, you know, classic old stories and you need kind of a weird, big terrain like the Japanese plains for Samurai movies or the West. You need that for these giants to walk around.

This is how good movies get made and always have: from the gut instinct of the financiers, not just by committee and research.

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