I wanted to show I had balls at age 60. Just because society says I'm old, doesn't mean that I am. I'm pursuing happiness, even if it makes the people around me unhappy.

Most of the films I myself like don't do very well. Every director, he has a choice, whether to go for subtlety and try to articulate every minute detail, or to go for the broad strokes and hope that the people will fill in between the lines. I tend to go for the broader strokes.

A lot of guys don't want to admit that they have a propensity for generosity and for violence.

You have to be really loyal to the people that supported you when you were coming up.

I watch a lot of news, and I watch musical shows because I think the music of the young people is really their news reports. They let you know how their country is going through their eyes, and about their experiences in the everyday shock of growing up.

Ya gotta do what ya gotta do.

Often people going into directing want to learn as much as they possibly can about "technique." And I say the hell with that.