When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.

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

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

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.

Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.

You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.