Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.

A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.

You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it.

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.

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

It takes no imagination to live within your means.

I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school.