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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.

I've really grown to love film, but I think occasionally you need to get up on a stage and see what's going on.

I characterize myself a little bit as a reluctant filmmaker. I learned from watching my friend in college stay up late at night, at 2 A.M., just to get the lighting right, and I thought, 'You know what, if that's what it's going to be like, I think I'm just going to write,' and I did that.

Film-making is not liberating. It drains a lot out of you, and it's fulfilling only temporarily. It's a very thankless thing at times. When you're spending all that time on a film, you don't want 40,000 people to see it - it's just not enough. You dream of more.

If people are looking forward to my films, then I am happy, and I must be doing something right.

No, I like today's cinema a lot. But I've spent so many decades only making movies. There's so much that I still want to do. Like, live. It's only up to me.

I'm drawn to cinema, especially when you're on a project that feels like it's going to be a challenge.

When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.

I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn.