I always think upon Lee Strasberg with warmth, and reviewing his wisdom is a pleasure.

I still think Ned Beatty should've played Don Corleone.

As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work.

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

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.

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.

So give yourself that chance to put together the 80, 90 pages of a draft and then read it very in a nice little ceremony, where you're comfortable, and you read it and make good notes on it, what you liked, what touched you, what moved you, what's a possible way, and then you go about on a rewrite.