Art depends on luck and talent.

I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.

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

It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me.

So much of the art of film is to do less. To aspire to do less.

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 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.