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

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

Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.

When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television.

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 great hope is that people who wouldn't normally make films will be making them. Suddenly, one day some little fat girl in Ohio is going to be the new Mozart and make a beautiful film with her father's camera and for once the so called professionalism about movies will be destroyed forever - and it will really become an art form.