Some critics are stimulating in that they make you realise how you could do better, and those are valued.

When I was 13, I worked for Western Union. When the telegrams came in, I would glue them on the paper and deliver them on my bicycle.

If the movie works, nobody notices the mistakes... If the movie doesn't work, the only thing people notice are mistakes.

It takes no imagination to live within your means.

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.

Movies are the art form most like man's imagination.

I believe that filmmaking - as, probably, is everything - is a game you should play with all your cards, and all your dice, and whatever else you've got. So, each time I make a movie, I give it everything I have. I think everyone should, and I think everyone should do everything they do that way.