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.

In America, even the critics - which is a pity - tend to genre-ize things. They have a hard time when genres get mixed. They want to categorize things. That's why I love Wes Anderson's films and the Coen Brothers, because you don't know what you're going to get, and very often you get something that you don't expect and that's just what a genre's not supposed to do.

Stay innocent. I'm 69 years old, and I'm still innocent.

The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

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.

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