The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college.

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.

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine.

Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not like commercial movies, which I enjoy myself, but I wanted to be the kind of filmmaker who wrote original work, sort of like a novelist would who deals with who we are and our times or our relationships.

I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me.

I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.