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

People aren't interested in paying $10 or $12 to go to the movies and to be lectured to politically. I'm not either. So I don't try to make those kinds of films.

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

If we were a primitive society, movie stars would be gods.

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

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

Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.