The internet in hotels should be free - and I really resent it when they charge you five dollars for a bottle of water beside your bed.

Some critics are stimulating in that they make you realise how you could do better, and those are valued.

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.

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

In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

I always knew what I thought the theme was, the core, in one word. In 'The Godfather' it was succession. In 'The Conversation' it was privacy. In 'Apocalypse' it was morality.