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

The time a movie is made is unique, not only from the talent that is available but if the public was ready for it.

I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.

But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?

I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.

A lot of the young people make beautiful films or big films or are able to finance them, but they can't get anyone to distribute them, they can't get anyone to see them, so they go to these thousands of film festivals. So I still believe that even though a young kid might be able to make a masterpiece or something that changes the direction of cinema, the issue of how to get it to people is still not solved.

Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing, and you kind of worked your way up.