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

I've been blessed with enough wealth that I can make a film myself up to a certain budget. So one way I thought I would reinvent myself was just to make these very small, personal films that I've financed myself.

That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life.

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

Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you can do with illusions and working within the confines of the studio.

In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer.

Today's winemakers still worry about quality.