The point is not to give people a break. The point is to tell all the truth you can bear about them and not despise them, not to be a kumbaya kind of guy.

Much to my chagrin, I think that cinema has gone the wrong way in America because in many ways, I pioneered the use of video which eventually became digital video. Everyone can do it it's Pop Art time: Everything is art, why should you take it so seriously, after all it's kind of like a clambake. I don't buy that.

Film schools are not rigorous enough. They let things get by and kids get out there and they think they are saying something and doing something.

I would not presume to say that I know anything about The Truth, whatever that is.