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.

There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children.

I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.

Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.

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

I've been blessed with enough wealth that I can make a film myself up to a certain budget. So one way I thought I would reinvent myself was just to make these very small, personal films that I've financed myself.

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