I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise.

When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.

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

It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad.

Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.

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.

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.