“Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part, you're a prisoner of whoever happens to be famous in the six-month window in which you're trying to get a film financed.”

“I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.”

“I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.”

“I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much.”

“Even if we die at 100, we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.”

“Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.”