In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material.

One of the things I love about cinema is the range.

In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form.

I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.

But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.

The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.

I made my first film on 16mm. Then I began using 35mm.Then I began working in Hollywood. And I began to really understand how films were made by professionals. I have to say I wasn't very impressed.