But at a certain point, and I don't really know... people have asked me this. I don't know exactly what it was that pushed me towards directing, but I think it was a naive notion that if I directed I would be able to play all the roles. A kind of greed.

But at a certain point, and I don't really know... people have asked me this. I don't know exactly what it was that pushed me towards directing, but I think it was a naive notion that if I directed I would be able to play all the roles. A kind of greed.

Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things.

One of the things that wrong with pictures today, I think, is that so many of the people making them started out wanting to.

There are no “old” movies-only movies you have already seen and ones you haven't.

Cher is one of the most talented women I've ever met. She's got depth and emotion that haven't even been touched.

The criterion for judging whether a movie is successful or not is time.