A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it.

The filmmakers always have a great level of control.

Most artists think they're frauds anyway.

I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.

I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me.

I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.

Everybody's a filmmaker today.