When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have.

The things you get fired for when you’re young are the same things that you get lifetime achievement awards for when you’re old.

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

In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

The most adventurous thing I've done is learn how to fly a helicopter in the Philippines. One night we landed on a beach and slept on it.