When You Have No Money, You Need

To Survive You Have To Withstand The Changes In The Business. This Business Has Gone Through So Many Changes Since I Was Young And Now It Is On To Something Else. It Is All Weird Today, For Me, Because I Am From The Old Times. You Just Have To Keep Adapting. Isn't That Darwinism? The Creature That Adapts To Its Environment Survives.

When Somebody Who Makes Movies For A Living - Either As An Actor, Writer, Producer Or Director - Lives To Be A Certain Age, You Have To Admire Them. It Is An Act Of Courage To Make A Film - A Courage For Which You Are Not Prepared In The Rest Of Life. It Is Very Hard And Very Destructive. But We Do It Because We Love It.

I'm Always Involved With Casting My Movies. I Have Final Word On It.

I Stopped Directing In 2001 For - Oh, Damn - Four Or Five Years, Until I Did The Tv Series 'masters Of Horror.' I Had Been Working Steadily As A Director Since 1970. That's A Long Time. I Was Burned Out.

To Make Movies You Just Have To Want It Enough. You Have To Have The Passion For Telling Stories. You Have To Get By The Love-of-movies Aspect. You Can't Just Be A Movie Fan.