I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.
I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
We made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.