When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.

Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.

I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.

Accept certain inalienable truths.

I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraway place.

I mean, '8 ½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.