No one is asking what happened to all the homeless. No one cares, because it's easier to get on the subway and not be accosted.

I have a lot of films that I haven't gotten made, and that continues to trouble me. But someday, some way or another, I think I will. It's all about timing. There's a moment when you're hot and studios will make your next film, and then there's a moment when you're really cold, and they couldn't care less what you want to do next. That's when you have to recede and make lower-budgeted films.

I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.

It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review. That's not film criticism. And there's so many expectations involved, too. You're going in to see the latest Martin Scorsese or Stanley Kubrick film, you really have high hopes, and you can't help but find that it's not exactly what you had in your head going in. Until you can watch it again, you can't accept the work for what it intends to be. It takes at least a second viewing.

There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters.

It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.

Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich.