I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast

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

If you're not allowed to experiment anymore for fear of being considered self-indulgent or pretentious or what have you, then everyone's going to just stick to the rules - there's not going to be any additional ideas.

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

A lot of the young people make beautiful films or big films or are able to finance them, but they can't get anyone to distribute them, they can't get anyone to see them, so they go to these thousands of film festivals. So I still believe that even though a young kid might be able to make a masterpiece or something that changes the direction of cinema, the issue of how to get it to people is still not solved.

Death is what makes life an event.

The very earliest people who made film were magicians.