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

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.

With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.

I tend to be what I would call more progressive than conservative, but I think either extreme is excessive.

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

Obviously its a good feeling to know that something you've done has lasted.

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.