I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.

You've got to protect whatever creative talent you have left.

You don't make pictures for Oscars.

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

I've been thrown out of schools and fired from jobs. I don't want to work. I can honestly say I haven't done an honest day's work in my life.

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.

We’re face to face with images all the time in a way that we never have been before... Young people need to understand that not all images are there to be consumed like fast food and then forgotten – we need to educate them to understand the difference between moving images that engage their humanity and their intelligence, and moving images that are just selling them something.