I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school.

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

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.

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

Movies are the art form most like man's imagination.

When I was 13, I worked for Western Union. When the telegrams came in, I would glue them on the paper and deliver them on my bicycle.

You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.