I don't want to move over to Beverly Hills. My goal is to make the movies I want to make and support the people I want to support. That's it.

You can only be a good father in relationship to your childhood.

I had gotten to the point where I just didn't want to perform anymore - I didn't want to be on the chopping block anymore. I started to want to withdraw and retreat from it.

The reality is that I feel that fear is a very spiritual emotion.

for in the absence of God he had found Man. Man killing man, man helping man, both of them anonymous: the scourge and the blessing.

What is fantastic for me is that the Romantic movement comes out as a counter balance to everything that has been accumulating since the Age of Reason. I think the downfall of imagination as a genre or as a perception starts with the Age of Reason, which says everything else that came before us, all those superstitions, all those myths, are childish.

I think when you get all the money and all the freedom, rarely do you get a good movie out of it or a movie that you're proud of.