So Much Of The Art Of Film

In America, Even The Critics - Which Is A Pity - Tend To Genre-ize Things. They Have A Hard Time When Genres Get Mixed. They Want To Categorize Things. That's Why I Love Wes Anderson's Films And The Coen Brothers, Because You Don't Know What You're Going To Get, And Very Often You Get Something That You Don't Expect And That's Just What A Genre's Not Supposed To Do.

I Associate My Motion Picture Career More With Being Unhappy And Scared, Or Being Under The Gun, Than With Anything Pleasant.

Most Directors Have One Masterpiece By Which They Are Known. Kurosawa Has At Least Eight Or Nine.

Work On Nothing Less Than Epic Scale

I Had A Number Of Very Strong Personalities In My Family. My Father Was A Concert Flutist, The Solo Flute For Toscanini.