I Tend To Be Drawn More To

Everything Had Been Done Long Before I Started Making Movies. I Mean, There's Nothing That Godard Hasn't Already Done. You Can't Do A Single Thing That Godard Hasn't Already Thought Of. And So You Struggle To Do Something That Is Not Predictable.

I Always Have A Plan, But Then I'm Always Ready To Throw The Plan Out, And Everyone's Ready To Make A Radical Left Turn If Necessary.

I Stopped Reading Reviews About My Own Movies. I Read Stuff About Other People's Movies.

I Guess I Didn't Feel Confident Enough To Be Searching In A Big Public Way. I Was Very Content At The Time To Toil In Obscurity On Things That I Thought Might Point Me In Certain Directions Or Teach Me Certain Things - Not Knowing What That Would Be.

Ego Is Something That Everybody, Creative Especially, Has To Grapple With. You Need Enough Ego To Keep Going But Not So Much Ego That You're Deaf Or Blind, That You're Making A Mistake And Can't Fix The Course.