There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children.

A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually.

Stay innocent. I'm 69 years old, and I'm still innocent.

So give yourself that chance to put together the 80, 90 pages of a draft and then read it very in a nice little ceremony, where you're comfortable, and you read it and make good notes on it, what you liked, what touched you, what moved you, what's a possible way, and then you go about on a rewrite.

I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.