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.

Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.

Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal than conservative. I have one life. I am a certain age. I'm married to one person. I have a certain number of children. I won't have another life other than that, but I do have many lives through the films. It's a way for me to understand what it's like to be a murderer, to confess, to be a beaten wife, to be a minority, to be a victor, to get the girl, to lose the girl. I can do all of that through the practice of an art form.

I make films, and I hope that people come to see them. If they don't, I pay a big price. But I can't make decisions where I would change my own standards or my own taste in order to court the public in some way.

No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.