I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.

I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

One of the most important tools that a filmmaker has are his/her notes.

When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have.

It was the man's dream, and his inspiring attempt to make them come true that remain important.

Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.

I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.