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

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.

There's nothing creative about living within your means.

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue.

I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it.

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