My Film Is Not A Movie; It's

When You Make A Film It Is Like Asking Yourself A Question. When It Is Finished, You Know The Answer. Ultimately With All Of Cinema, We Are Just Trying To Learn About Ourselves. I Have Always Used The Opportunity To Make A Film To Learn More About Myself, Which I Am Still Doing.

I'm Very Proud Of My Flops, As Much As Of My Successes.

That's Part Of The Requirement For Me To Be An Artist Is That You're Trying To Share Your Personal Existence With Others And Trying To Illuminate Modern Life, Trying To Understand Life.

The Stuff That I Got In Trouble For, The Casting For The Godfather Or The Flag Scene In Patton, Was The Stuff That Was Remembered, And Was Considered The Good Work.

I Landed A Job With Roger Corman. The Job Was To Write The English Dialogue For A Russian Science Fiction Picture. I Didn't Speak Any Russian. He Didn't Care Whether I Could Understand What They Were Saying; He Wanted Me To Make Up Dialogue.