You shouldn't dream your film, you should make it!
The only time I'm totally happy is when I'm watching films or making them.
A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values.
I have made almost as many films in England as I have in America. I will come back to England again and again.
The thing that I'm just scared to death of is that someday I'm going to wake up and bore somebody with a film.
If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.
You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is going to be relevant, if not to yourself, to the movies you make.
I think every film I make that puts characters in jeopardy is me purging my own fears, sadly only to re-engage with them shortly after the release of the picture. I'll never make enough films to purge them all.
You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change; you change.
History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time.
I've been told that I'm a very different person on the set than I am in postproduction when the movie's over and I'm editing, in that I get so wound up in the film that I become selfless to the point where I lose too much weight.
Whatever affect any of my films have on audiences, I just kind of stop at the door. I make them and I just don't go outside after they're over.