To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again?

It was the money from 'Star Wars' and 'Jaws' that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens.

All of my films have been very hard to understand at the script stage because they're very different. At the time I did them they were not conventional. The executives could only think in terms of what they'd already seen. It's hard for them to think in terms of what has never been done before.

I would like to see our society mature, and become more rational and more knowledge-based, less emotion-based.

Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.

There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult.

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.