You should prepare when you go to a public event to be public. That's when I will sign autographs. But not when you're going about your normal business.

I can't watch completed films - my wife makes fun of me.

[Making Ordinary People] was a wonderful experience. Tremendous. I haven't seen it since. It belongs to the public now; it no longer really belongs to me.

I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor.

Politics right now is in a very dark place, and I think the only place for me is to do what I do - make films, create art, watch it as it evolves. Right now it's like Humpty Dumpty sitting on a wall, and a great fall is happening. The behavior seems to be really dumb.

Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art.

I didn't think about politics until I came to Europe.