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

If filmmakers are ignorant of the past, they laborto re-invent the wheel in every picture. You sit and think, 'Well,we're back to 1903 here.'

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

I think one of the reasons younger people don't like older films, films made say before the '60s, is that they've never seen them on a big screen, ever. If you don't see a film on a big screen, you haven't really seen it. You've seen a version of it, but you haven't seen it. That's my feeling, but I'm old-fashioned.

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

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

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.