I had no choice. It was just something that happened. I was always looking for ways to act out, and I got a camera and it acted out for me.

When I grow up, I still want to be a director.

Akira Kurosawa is the pictorial William Shakespeare of our time.

I basically took something that was extremely erotic and very intentional, and I reduced it to a simple kiss. I got a lot of criticism for that.

I have always admired him (Bergman), and I wish I could be an equally good filmmaker as he is, but it will never happen. His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience

You can't start a movie by having the attitude that the script is finished, because if you think the script is finished, your movie is finished before the first day of shooting.

In '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no such thing as digital animation. This was the analog era.