I'd like to make a great movie. I've made many movies. I think I've made some good movies, but I never felt I've made a great movie.

My relationship with death remains the same - I'm strongly against it.

I think there is too much wrong with the world to ever get too relaxed and happy. The more natural state, and the better one, I think, is one of some anxiety and tension over man's plight in this mysterious universe.

I always felt that the problems of the world would never ever be solved until people came to terms with the deeper issues [spiritual] - that there would be an aimless reshuffling of world leaders and governments and programs.

I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion with you.

I can make films. And some of them come out good, and some of them come out better, and some of them come out worse. But I've been very lucky over the years to be able to sustain the length of career that I've had.

I'm short enough and ugly enough to succeed on my own.