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

Most filmmakers can't afford to try something out that doesn't work.

There's nothing creative about living within your means.

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

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.

The things you get fired for when you’re young are the same things that you get lifetime achievement awards for when you’re old.

I have always credited the writer of the original material above the title: Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or John Grisham's The Rainmaker. I felt that I didn't have the right to Francis Coppola's anything unless I had written the story and the screenplay.