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.

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

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.

Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine.

I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.

The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It's a high-wire act. That excites me.

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