After a lot of struggling and sort of reflection I realized that the time you have to give is now, regardless of how old you are.

I am very concerned about our national heritage, and I am very concerned that the films that I watched when I was young and the films that I watched throughout my life are preserved, so that my children can see them.

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

Changes are not unusual - I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it's the end of the world.

Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose.

When my films don't work it's usually because I tried some very experimental idea. I tried new ideas and they just didn't work, as opposed to trying to do something conventional and having it be so conventional nobody wanted to see it.

The script is what you`ve dreamed up - this is what it should be. The film is what you end up with.