The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It's a high-wire act. That excites me.

A lot of the young people make beautiful films or big films or are able to finance them, but they can't get anyone to distribute them, they can't get anyone to see them, so they go to these thousands of film festivals. So I still believe that even though a young kid might be able to make a masterpiece or something that changes the direction of cinema, the issue of how to get it to people is still not solved.

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.

Music is a big factor in helping the illusion of the film come to life. The same way music brings back different periods of our lives.

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.

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