I Believe That Independent Film Making Is

The Dean Of The American Film Institute Has Written That I'm One Of The Very Few Auteurs In America. I've Had Freedom For 40 Years To Create Art That Is Totally Personal And Is What I Believe In.

The Thing I Find About The Movie Industry Is That 99 Percent Of The People Are Absolute Scum. They're Horrible People, They Really Are. Very Nasty Killer Rabbits Who Hate Movies. But The Other 1 Percent Are Really The Greatest, Most Wonderful People In The World.

My Favorite Film Is Always The One That I Most Recently Worked On.

My Roommate At Yale University Introduced Me To The Auteur Theory Of Filmmaking. I Soon Became A Big Fan Of The Works Of John Ford, Kenji Mizoguchi, Ernst Lubitsch, And Stan Brakhage. I Then Decided To Make My Own Films!

I Didn't Even Know What A Film Director Was. To Me, Charlie Chaplin Was A Goofy Clown, And John Ford - What? Never Heard Of Him.