You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring.

But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly.

I used a Luma crane, a wounderful device; it makes the camera able to go anywhere. It was also used on Friday the 13th Part 3.

The psychiatrists examine you and ask you about your life and work, and then they decide whether your film can be shown or not. It's a horrible experience.

It irritated me that my fans kept wanting me to retread old ground.

The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.

In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.