Every few years when it's been another five years that have passed and I haven't made a film and the depression starts taking over totally, I allow myself to do a commercial. And then I feel really dirty and get to work promptly.

I'm more prone to anarchy than I am to control - even though I'm a film director.

I was an incredible Anglophile. I found people who shared the same sense of humor and attitude toward the world.

I don't think you ever learn just one thing. At some point you start unlearning things. I have been working hard to unlearn everything I know.

Hyperbole is something Id better avoid.

I like being a patron of things, I like patronizing things. And if it's not going to be people, I'll patronize a festival.

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