You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.

But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?

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.

Art depends on luck and talent.

I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you can cook up, with non-existent budgets. I didn't want to be surrounded by comforts and colleagues, which you have when when you're a big time director. I wanted to write personal works.

Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes successful in show business.

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