And that is how I employ my time in cinema, saying things about people who I think have touched us in terms of our value judgement and by example.

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

On my last day of shooting, I'd be happy to say 'Cut, it's a wrap' and fall off the twig.

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

In other words, if you - the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost as large as the cost of the movie.

If you are directing, you have the opportunity to put your signature on the bottom of the frame. You have the opportunity to say, "This is what I believe. That is my credo. That is what I wish to state."

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.