What was the scandal? I fell in love with this girl, married her. We have been married for almost 15 years now.

People make films for different reasons. For money. Or, they make them because something in them demands artistic expression. I do it because I enjoy the work.

When you work from city to city or country to country, you work the same way; the working method is the same.

I have an intense desire to return to the womb. Anybody's.

This stuff tastes awful; I could have made a fortune selling it in my health-food store.

Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine.

It has become harder and harder in the United States to make films unhampered by outside influences. I've always been able to steer clear of that and keep the business people out of my hair completely.