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I don't want to do something that I've done before; I can't see the point of it.

It's hard to watch something you've done many years ago.

If an idea isn't exciting, you shouldn't do it.

Don't let anyone tell you your ideas are stupid or the thing you feel most passionate about 'won't work' - it's happened to me time and time again, and we find that if you push at what you think is interesting hard enough, you're probably right.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

You can make a thousand different movies about the same subject.

If I have any appeal at all, it's to the fellow who takes out the garbage.

Light, trivial comedy does not appeal - it is not something I go to see.

I'm never a person who likes anything I've done. It's just the way it is. Twenty years later, I can look at something I did, and I'm still thinking, 'You know, that could have been better if you had done it this way or that way.