I don't like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what's even worse, of being quoted exactly.

Everybody has their black moments.

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.

The feel of the experience is the important thing, not the ability to verbalize or analyze it.

You know, I often thought that the gangster and the artist are the same in the eyes of the masses. They're admired and hero-worshipped but there is always present underlying desire to see them destroyed at the peak of their glory.

You either care or you don’t.

If Gary Cooper and Henry Fonda had a baby, it would be Matthew Modine.