Coppola has problems getting financing, so why should I not have problems getting financing.

The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.

I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.

Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.

I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way.

I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.

The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.

I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.

They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em.

It takes a decade to grow a tree, and it takes more than one generation to shape the right mindset.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.

The way I work is mostly unconscious and instinctive.

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

If you want to be given everything, give everything up.

The ugliness of the beauty is much horrible than the ugliness of the ugliness.

For everybody who thinks it's warming, I can find somebody who thinks it isn't.

His victims were for the most part financial institutions who exact their revenge in courtrooms.