You must let go of your past and embrace your future and figure out what path you're going to go down

Sometimes people are surprised to learn that most of the films I've made don't work. They've been released but nobody has ever seen them. Maybe 40 percent of them are very successful. That's a very high percentage; most people have maybe 10 or 15 percent of their films work.

Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.

The first movies, they just put up a camera and had a train come into a train station, and everybody was amazed. That was sort of all technology.

If I had time and a hammer, I'd track down every bootleg copy and smash it.

You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle.

When a movie comes out, I always go off on a beach so I miss all the craziness that goes on, all the hoopla, and the hype and the success, and how much it's making, or whether it's doing good or whether it's doing bad. I just miss it all. I don't talk to anybody, and a couple weeks later I come back and it's all over with.