I can't describe it, what I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. This means something. This is important.

You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is going to be relevant, if not to yourself, to the movies you make.

I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.

I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.

I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids.

I make some movies for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter is very sensitive and very personal and I really can't imagine that I'm an audience member. I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience. There are other types of genre films that I need to be able to direct from the audience, to be right next to you watching the picture being made.

The best time of my life has been the three instances where I have been there for the birth of my children. That is, nothing [else] has ever come close.