I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world.

When you make motion pictures, each picture is a life unto itself. When you finish and the picture is over, there's an understanding, a realization that we'll never be assembled this way again. That these relationships are severed forever and ever. And each of these films is a little life.

Even Michelangelo on his deathbed thought he'd done nothing to ennoble art. He wanted to destroy his work-the Pieta! And this from the greatest artist who ever lived. Of course I am not comparing my work to Michelangelo's. But this eternal dissatisfaction of the artist is what I was talking about.

I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.

Hollywood has always been a cage...a cage to catch our dreams

I relieve myself from the rigours of directing by casting the movie correctly.