I'd been working so hard making the film that I hadn't even emotionally processed the fact that I was a director.

I had a long writing history behind me before I got into anything in film. It comprehended science fiction, it comprehended historical, it comprehended, you know, just about everything that you can think of.

As a director, you're given a tremendous apparatus to work with, and very great talents are available to you.

I don't like scripts leaking. On the other hand, the more real attention a script gets, the better.

I hate doing anything in offices. I either want to be out in the world or in my own environment - and it should be your own environment that you work in.

Most films go out like skydivers who have had their chutes packed by a committee of blind schizophrenics.

If you're playing around with a film, you're just playing around with it. But if it has to go into theaters, you get yourself into gear and finish it.