Time is the lens through which dreams are captured.

I just finished a film a few days ago, and I came home and said I learned so much today. So if I can come home from working on a little film after doing it for 45 years and say, "I learned so much today," that shows something about the cinema. Because the cinema is very young. It's only 100 years old.

Everyone knows the phenomenon of trying to hold your breath underwater - how at first it's alright and you can handle it, and then as it gets closer and closer to the time when you must breathe, how urgent the need becomes, the lust and the hunger to breathe. And then the panic sets in when you begin to think that you won't be able to breathe - and finally, when you take in air and the anxiety subsides...that's what it's like to be a vampire and need blood.

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.

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

I'm very proud of my flops, as much as of my successes.

I made this movie for $40,000, which was this little black-and-white horror film called Dementia 13, which we made in about nine days.