It's a certain kind of immortality, because those Disney films do go on and on and on..

I've been very blessed to work in some films that I'm very proud of..

I like to watch old films. Meet Me in St Louis, Cul-de-Sac and Buffalo 66 are some of my favourites..

I always expose the apparatus. I show how the film was made. I acknowledge the filmmaker and the filmmaking..

The greatest drawback in making pictures is the fact that film makers have to eat..

The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint ….

I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat..

The Immaculate Reception became the Zapruder Film of sports..

Most films go out like skydivers who have had their chutes packed by a committee of blind schizophrenics..

The financing of my films has always been international..

I am astonished and surprised that someone could consider making a film about me without talking to me about it..

I basically just make films that interest me. And I don't want to make the same film twice, you know? But I've never found a franchise, so... I guess….

I love film scores and opera, and I wanted to work in those forms. But theater was more accessible. And no one was doing this in the late 1970s, when….

Good films can be made only by a crew of Dedicated Maniacs..

The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing..

It certainly made a film writing career for me..

As a kid, all I wanted to do was be in a Viking film..

Is it inevitable after a successful film that they're going to ask for another one? Yes. Do we want to rush and do it for that reason? No..

We don't believe in splitting the experience. We don't believe in taking a row out and putting in motion seats [that shake and move in response to cu….

Poland and my roots are very important for me. That's why I decided to make a feature film in Poland, and with only Polish money..

The films that I do tend to polarise people's views..