Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves?

You go to school to figure out who you want to be and how you can do it, and [maybe] I should have, because the films would probably be technically better.

The anger I have about high school - which I do have because they discouraged every interest I ever had; actually I call it anti-education - that anger led to my career.

I make independent movies. I don't know how to do anything else. I don't know any other job that I could really get.

I built my [early] career on negative reviews. There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square. They hated my movies. You could never have that happen today. Critics are way too hip.

I went to a Catholic high school, which, to this day, I could burn down. And I got great revenge because they had their fiftieth anniversary, andThe Baltimore Sun called me and said, ‘What did you think of your high school?’ And I said, ‘They discouraged every interest I ever had.’ And I saw that in print.

I think [parents] became very proud, even though they were mortified by the early films because no one liked them.