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.

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

I think if you think of yourself as religious and if you're given a gift, some may not think it's that great a gift - some critics. But others might, you know. So you say, look - whether it's good, bad or indifferent, this is what I do.

I don't like being in houses alone.

There are movies that change the whole way in which films are made, like Klute, where Gordon Willis’s photography on the film is so textured, and, they said, too dark.

Sometimes when you're heavy into the shooting or editing of a picture, you get to the point where you don't know if you could ever do it again.