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.

Art depends on luck and talent.

I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.

Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do.

Stay innocent. I'm 69 years old, and I'm still innocent.

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it. But you look at the project and think, 'Gee, there are a lot of good directors who could do that.' I'd like to do something only I can do.