An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before?

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

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

Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing, and you kind of worked your way up.

Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do.

I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me.