I did not have a reputation to defend.
You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.
Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.
It's easy to direct while acting - there's one less person to argue with.
I never made a film which fully satisfied me.
Happy endings make me puke.