Before my commercial success, I had difficulty doing what I wanted, but my sincere short films always won prizes in festivals. So I was ready for larger successes.

If I need something, I just draw it, have a few friends make it move, and it exists. I enjoy this strange power. I try to be a good sorcerer, though.

Before my commercial success, I had difficulty doing what I wanted, but my sincere short films always won prizes in festivals. So I was ready for larger successes.

I've always felt that I've made films, period. I wanted to leave the "ghetto." And here I am, I'm out.

Sometimes I dream that I'm working; that's awful. When you awaken after a big, surprising dream, you feel it's very interesting. When you sit and write it down, you realize it's a very poor script. But I may find ideas while dozing.

I do my films the best as I can, period. I always hope that, gradually, my honest work will reach Americans.

One gets used to success very quickly. The surprise was how deep and enduringly I was touching people, in such different places and throughout generations.