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.

There's nothing creative about living within your means.

I believe that filmmaking - as, probably, is everything - is a game you should play with all your cards, and all your dice, and whatever else you've got. So, each time I make a movie, I give it everything I have. I think everyone should, and I think everyone should do everything they do that way.

Some critics are stimulating in that they make you realise how you could do better, and those are valued.

The things you get fired for when you’re young are the same things that you get lifetime achievement awards for when you’re old.

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

My talent is that I just try and try and try and try again and little by little it comes to something.