If the movie works, nobody notices the mistakes... If the movie doesn't work, the only thing people notice are mistakes.

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.

The whole reason one wants to do lower budget films is because the lower the budget, the bigger the ideas, the bigger the themes, the more interesting the art.

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

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

The most adventurous thing I've done is learn how to fly a helicopter in the Philippines. One night we landed on a beach and slept on it.

Films and hotels have many aspects that are the same. For example, there is always a big vision, an idea.