When I watch a movie, I don't want to see the extra bits.

If you want a studio to back you, you want to be doing something that's been done to death!

If you look at the types of directors out there, I'm not as weird as most of them.

I have always enjoyed the company of women.

I'm what is known as a 40-year overnight success.

I think people think filmmaking is fun, but I've never thought that. For me it's always been a lot of work and pain and stress.

By the time I was a young man, I was pretty independent.

I am more connected to the world of the imagination, but you don't have to have polio to do that.

Particularly with middle-class people, self-absorption is a struggle.