There's nothing I've done which I'm ashamed of or I thought was actually bad.

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.

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.

I've held onto little musical sketches that I thought could be useful, and the more time that I spend doing them for each film, then the more I have to draw on.

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.

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