It's hard for me to know. I'll think, 'I really brought off my ideas, it's great,' and no one sparks to it

I've been escaping my whole life. Since I was a little child, I escaped into the movies on the other side as an audience member. I escaped by going into the movies and sitting in the movies all day long.

You make a film and always hope you're going make "Citizen Kane" or "The Bicycle Thief." You make the film, and for one reason or another, one clicks and one doesn't, but it's out of your control completely.

A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.

My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.

In certain areas I don't function well and in other areas I function very well. I'm very good professionally. I have good discipline, I'm able to write every day and do films and not go six times over the budget. I mean I'm a coherent person, but I also don't like to go through tunnels when I travel. I'm claustrophobic.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.