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

The English are such a frightened, nervous, insecure group of people - they no longer rule the world!

Talent is less important in filmmaking than patience.

Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe its a different one. The old one got fired.

It's the shock of the world if you allow yourself to disconnect from the world and forget it's out there, how noisy it is, how busy it is, how invasive it is.

Writers do the self-censoring before they even get to the studio executive, because they know the film will not run that gauntlet. They, because they want to get their films made, they censor it.

Reality and fantasy, we need both of those to survive. If we don't have fantasy, dreams and all of those things, what's the point of carrying on? And you need to watch out for reality because buses come.