I still think Ned Beatty should've played Don Corleone.

A lot of the young people make beautiful films or big films or are able to finance them, but they can't get anyone to distribute them, they can't get anyone to see them, so they go to these thousands of film festivals. So I still believe that even though a young kid might be able to make a masterpiece or something that changes the direction of cinema, the issue of how to get it to people is still not solved.

By working in the morning, I find a sense of peace; it's isolated peace, but I can definitely be in touch with my feelings, and then I just start.

Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

In America, even the critics - which is a pity - tend to genre-ize things. They have a hard time when genres get mixed. They want to categorize things. That's why I love Wes Anderson's films and the Coen Brothers, because you don't know what you're going to get, and very often you get something that you don't expect and that's just what a genre's not supposed to do.

We had access to too much equipment, too much money, and little by little we went insane.

I made this movie for $40,000, which was this little black-and-white horror film called Dementia 13, which we made in about nine days.