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.

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

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 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.

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

I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten.

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.