The first two movies I directed failed when I was 21 and 23 and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.

American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class age gender culture.

I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.

The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.

When I was a kid I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

Maybe when I stop making movies I'll understand my work better.

My normal cycle for movies is eighteen months and each part is separate.

Even in the former Soviet Union they have good copies of my movies.

I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.

I made about 28 movies and I think about five of them were good.