Success is when you try to achieve your inward vision externally and have it come off the way you see it. Then YOU feel successful about it; that's how success is measured.

If this were a fantasy world, there would be ten of me and we would each be doing what we wanted to do.

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.

The best way to truly understand narrative art is to experience it.

I’m moving away from the business, from the company, from all this kind of stuff.

You can be as rich, and famous, and powerful as you want to be, and it will not bring you happiness. That's said over and over and over, again. It's such a cliché that it hardly needs to be said, but people don't understand that it's actually true.

When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.