To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally.

Audiences arent fools - their judgement really is important. And the true heroes of films are the investors. They take the risk, after all.

The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.

As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.

There's the physical life and the voice, but at some point you abandon all of that, you know what the spirit of the person is and you let it descend and just get on with it.

To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally.

I teach film directing, inasmuch as you can. Its not really possible to teach film direction, but I sit there as a sort of testimony of experience and know-how, I suppose.