I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful filmmaker-in that a number of people speak well of me. But none of my films have received unanimously positive reviews, and none have done blockbuster business.

A film needs more than you can give it in a lifetime.

My period as a young teenager when you really listen to music so you can get understand a little bit more about what the music is was, say, 1965 to 1968. I was just lucky to be in those times.

[Making movies] you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality.

Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.

The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.

God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.