Collaboration is like the sex of creativity.

I made this movie for $40,000, which was this little black-and-white horror film called Dementia 13, which we made in about nine days.

By working in the morning, I find a sense of peace; it's isolated peace, but I can definitely be in touch with my feelings, and then I just start.

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

I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn’t have a lot of friends. Theater really represented that kind of camaraderie.

You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again.

George Lucas doesn't have the most physical stamina. He was so unhappy making Star Wars that he just vowed he'd never do it again.