Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.

If I'm not complaining, I'm not having a good time, hah hah!

Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.

A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.

Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.

I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.

If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure of the script.