Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work.

Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work.

I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.

You know the hardest thing to do in Hollywood is burn bridges. There is usually some sucker who still likes me. There is usually some sucker who will still work with me.

I'm trying to escape by forming my own kind of world. Basically, I'm trying to encourage others to do the same.

The more money you have to work with, the more people you have to deal with that you probably don't want to be spending time dealing with.

Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it – I do actually like it because it says certain things. It's about expanding how you see the world. I think we live in an age where we're just hammered, hammered to think this is what the world is. Television's saying, everything's saying 'That's the world.' And it's not the world. The world is a million possible things.