If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.

I want to live where I want to live, and I will make films because I love to make films.

You can't do it unless you can imagine it.

I thought it [Star Wars] was too wacky for the general public. Right or wrong this is my movie, this is my decision, and this is my creative vision, and if people don't like it, they don't have to see it.

I'm here, and every day now is an extra day. I've been given an extra day so I've got to make the most of it.

I came from a very avant-garde documentary kind of film making world. I like cinema verité, documentaries. I liked non-story, non-character tone poems. And that's the film making that I was interested in.

I think that Lethal Weapon-style dialogue is overused, it's a necessary aspect of high action films where you have to have the smart retort. You have to say "I'll be back baby" and stuff. It's not my style.