You don't normally do another presentation of All About Eve. You do one All About Eve, and that's it.

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.

When you work without a script, you are in a sense working in a much more improvisational way than when you are prepared totally.

It's always interesting to play people different from yourself, it would be boring for me to play myself.

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

Every film I've made has a kind of frustrated love story in the center of it. They were people who saw life from opposing points of view, which has been in every film I've ever done. It had all the ingredients of the kinds of films I like to do.

OK, I know this is going to disgust you, Michael, but a lot of people are in this business to make money.