I steal from every single movie ever made. I love it - if my work has anything it's that I'm taking this from this and that from that and mixing them together. If people don't like that, then tough titty, don't go and see it, all right? I steal from everything. Great artists steal; they don't do homages.
When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.