I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.

You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it.

I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you can cook up, with non-existent budgets. I didn't want to be surrounded by comforts and colleagues, which you have when when you're a big time director. I wanted to write personal works.

I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.

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.

One of the most important tools that a filmmaker has are his/her notes.

So much of the art of film is to do less. To aspire to do less.