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

I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.

The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.

There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children.

I just finished a film a few days ago, and I came home and said I learned so much today. So if I can come home from working on a little film after doing it for 45 years and say, "I learned so much today," that shows something about the cinema. Because the cinema is very young. It's only 100 years old.

I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.

You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again.