If I have to be remembered for something, I want it remembered that I really liked children and was a good camp counselor.

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 don't go on set with an army of people because the most expensive elements of a movie production are the plane tickets, the hotel rooms, food and gasoline. If you're willing to discover new colleagues in the place that you are, you can save a ton of money.

The essence of cinema is editing.

The internet in hotels should be free - and I really resent it when they charge you five dollars for a bottle of water beside your bed.

But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?

'Godfather' was very classical, the way it was shot, the style, the whole driving force of it was more classical, almost Shakespearean.