Lots of people have criticized my movies, but nobody has ever identified the real problem: I'm a sloppy filmmaker.
A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.
I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.
There's nothing creative about living within your means.
The essence of cinema is editing.
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.