You give up your narcissism, your egotism. That's how you achieve chemistry.

If you're older you want to tell stories about the pool of human life and living and to communicate, not only to your age group but to do an age group that can begin to understand, that has enough experience of life far beyond the taste of life.

You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you're willing to do that, everything opens up and you get the freedom. My joke is that next year, I'll make the first film that costs zero dollars.

Women are just more oriented toward feelings - and I don't mean that in a negative way. But with a male actor and a male director, the emotional exploration can only go so far. With a female director, you can end up exploring so many more depths.

The truth was that, you know, there was no reason to send me to Shattuck Military School. But it was a disciplinarian school.

In the sixties, you're still thinking you could do something about this slow disintegration of the body.