I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten.

Death is what makes life an event.

When a movie is about to come out on its initial debut, there are a lot of people involved - the financiers, the studio and the producers and also, many times, the foreign distributors. So it is a time of tremendous pressure and uncertainty.

I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

My talent is that I just try and try and try and try again and little by little it comes to something.