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

The essence of cinema is editing.

I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me.

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.

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.

To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.'

When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'