Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it's like a family..

Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert.

Truthfully, my films don't get funded, they get adopted - and are made thanks to the generosity of others..

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director..

I love when scenes are intentionally and meticulously planned so we feel like this is a handcrafted scene that only works in this moment and this mov….

If you cast a film incorrectly, then you're going to be fighting an uphill battle..

Films are hard to make and I think the word indulge really leads one to believe that it's an easy sort of business and it's really extremely difficul….

The great thing about theater is that you have so much time to prepare, and to fail, before presenting it to the public. In film, the high-wire act s….

I can't tell you why I choose stuff, it's really something I don't analyse. The only thing I can say is that a film has to demand to be made, I don't….

I'd love to work in America, some of my favourite films come from America..

As I'm getting older, I want to make sure every film I do really counts..

I have great respect for the FBI, and I know that there have been some rumors lately that the FBI was disenchanted because of what we were doing in s….

I think quite often when you have a hell of a lot more money and time, as you very much do on a big studio film, you don't necessarily have to make t….

We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't make any movie and it will be good.

Basically you can do anything in a film. I could have place a spaceship in the middle of a street. You can do anything, and I love to talk about this….

If I have to shoot on digital, I will not make the film..

All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography..

When a certain show or film or celebrity captures the imagination of the masses that has a good deal to say about us, I think, and what is happening ….

If I could direct it [films] I would be very happy. But the economics of business don't always allow you to do what you want..

I'd love to do a film like 'Chicago.' Something musical because I've obviously come from that background..

My films require that the spectator ask the big existential questions. If you're not interested of turning inwards for answers, my films won't fulfil….