I've Always Been Able To

You Know, I Find It Very Strange When Movies That I Made That Were Just Excoriated - I Mean That I Was Just Vilified For - Are Now Looked At As Classics.

Films Are Always Pretentious. There's Nothing More Pretentious Than A Filmmaker.

There Is A Certain Kind Of Respect For Authenticity Today That There Wasn't Back In The Days When They Did 'cleopatra,' Where Everything Looked Like A Giant Motel. People Want To Have It Be Authentic In The Look, And Authentic In The Way People Behave.

I Hardly Said A Word To My Wife Until I Said 'yes' To Divorce.

I Became A Loner. I Became A Mountain Man. A Lot Of Those Things Are Very Good Qualities And They Help You Do Your Work, Help You Be Singular And Keep The Artistic Integrity Of Your Work Intact, But They Don't Make It Very Easy To Live Your Life.