I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars.
When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.
The day I can't walk is the day I quit movies.
I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.
In some ways, what I need is a wife.
I'm still very critical of myself in film.
I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish.
You have to believe. You have to stick to your guns.
Documentaries can embrace contradictions in a way that journalism can't.
And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!
That was all and it was enough for me: fantasies are better left fantasies.
Film-making is a physically hard job.
A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest.
No one in my writers' room can wear sweatpants.
For a director, the most challenging scenes are the dialogue scenes.
There has been one defining production for me in each decade.
Interview with a Vampire was lots of sex, so I'm not sure.
I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.
Nowadays the audience has changed. No one can anticipate the audience.
Sometimes strange fiction, becomes grim reality.
What do your parents know, about surviving?
