I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

Collaboration is like the sex of creativity.

I've been failing for, like, ten or eleven years. When it turns, it'll turn. Right now I'm just trying to squeeze through a very tight financial period, get the movie out, and put my things in order.

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

I made this movie for $40,000, which was this little black-and-white horror film called Dementia 13, which we made in about nine days.

I always knew what I thought the theme was, the core, in one word. In 'The Godfather' it was succession. In 'The Conversation' it was privacy. In 'Apocalypse' it was morality.

I just finished a film a few days ago, and I came home and said I learned so much today. So if I can come home from working on a little film after doing it for 45 years and say, "I learned so much today," that shows something about the cinema. Because the cinema is very young. It's only 100 years old.