When you produce and direct your own film you havethe somewhat consoling feeling that the producer will kill for you.

I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.

You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.

Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.

I took some time out for life.

A lot of things just aren't true any more.

[Screenwriting] is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.