I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.

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.

Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.

I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it. But you look at the project and think, 'Gee, there are a lot of good directors who could do that.' I'd like to do something only I can do.

As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work.

I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films.

I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me.