Once I start to do a film, it has inferences. If a guy walks down a street and kicks a dog, you're saying something about that guy. A guy walks down the street and somebody's about to be run over and he shoves him out of his way and gets hit by the car himself, you're saying that guy's a hero. You can't avoid making certain statements.

I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.

I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.

You mustn't regret decisions that you make. Because the decisions are made out of your gut in a way and you have to stick with them.

I have to have a working knowledge of light, and optics, film emulsions and their properties, and lenses, otherwise I can't create the shoots that are the vocabulary of the films. But it is not necessary for me to be a cameraman, I can hire a cameraman.

Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.

Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.