Cinema without risk is like having no sex and expecting to have a baby.

I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.

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'm very proud of my flops, as much as of my successes.

An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before?

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 only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It's a high-wire act. That excites me.