When you're making a film you start living with it, and I find myself sitting down and figuring out a sound or melody that would go with a film, or a particular period. It's not brain surgery, you just kind of feel it along.

In America, instead of making the audience come to the film, the idea seems to be for you to go to the audience. They come up with the demographics for the film and then the film is made and sold strictly to that audience.

To me cinema can be a much more friendly world if there's a lot of things to choose from.

You take the work seriously, you don't take yourself seriously. You keep that straight and you'll do well the rest of your life.

Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.

If you don't pay attention to history, you're destined to repeat it.

Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning something new.