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.

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.

If you're not allowed to experiment anymore for fear of being considered self-indulgent or pretentious or what have you, then everyone's going to just stick to the rules - there's not going to be any additional ideas.

A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.

I like simplicity; I don't need luxury.

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

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.