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

The great hope is that people who wouldn't normally make films will be making them. Suddenly, one day some little fat girl in Ohio is going to be the new Mozart and make a beautiful film with her father's camera and for once the so called professionalism about movies will be destroyed forever - and it will really become an art form.

The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college.

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.

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

If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business.

As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work.