I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.

Sound is your friend because sound is much cheaper than picture, but it has equal effect on the audience - in some ways, perhaps more effect because it does it in a very indirect way.

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

The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes successful in show business.

An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before?

Work on nothing less than epic scale