You don't have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.

When that happens - when risk is taken and the filmmakers dive into the subject matter without a parachute - very often what you get it something with those qualities that make it age well with the public.

We had access to too much equipment, too much money, and little by little we went insane.

'Godfather' was very classical, the way it was shot, the style, the whole driving force of it was more classical, almost Shakespearean.

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

I used to love going into local hardware stores, to look at little things they made locally. Nowadays it's harder, though you can still do it in Vietnam.

Time is the lens through which dreams are captured.