I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.

You begin a film more with questions than with direct intentions. It's more of an exploration and discovery.

When I'm shooting, I don't care who the star is. I have an actor playing a part, and I'm serving the script, not serving anyone's career.

I never wanted money worries to slow me down or make me take a job I didn't want.

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.

Properly targeted public investment can do much to boost economic performance, generating aggregate demand quickly, fueling productivity growth by improving human capital, encouraging technological innovation, and spurring private-sector investment by increasing returns.

It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.

My viewers are smart. They know I have a contract with a TV show and that I make a lot of money.