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.

When I was 13, I worked for Western Union. When the telegrams came in, I would glue them on the paper and deliver them on my bicycle.

I still think Ned Beatty should've played Don Corleone.

Sound is your friend because sound is much cheaper than picture, but it has equal effect on the audience - in some ways, perhaps more effect because it does it in a very indirect way.

I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.

Collaboration is like the sex of creativity.

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