When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'

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

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.

But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?

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

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

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