Films and hotels have many aspects that are the same. For example, there is always a big vision, an idea.

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 realized I probably wouldn't make another film that cuts through commercial and creative things like 'Godfather' or 'Apocalypse.'

As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work.

I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!

I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.

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.