I'm Very Proud Of My

In America, Even The Critics - Which Is A Pity - Tend To Genre-ize Things. They Have A Hard Time When Genres Get Mixed. They Want To Categorize Things. That's Why I Love Wes Anderson's Films And The Coen Brothers, Because You Don't Know What You're Going To Get, And Very Often You Get Something That You Don't Expect And That's Just What A Genre's Not Supposed To Do.

I Have Always Credited The Writer Of The Original Material Above The Title: Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Or John Grisham's The Rainmaker. I Felt That I Didn't Have The Right To Francis Coppola's Anything Unless I Had Written The Story And The Screenplay.

Lots Of People Have Criticized My Movies, But Nobody Has Ever Identified The Real Problem: I'm A Sloppy Filmmaker.

You Ought To Love What You're Doing Because, Especially In A Movie, Over Time You Really Will Start To Hate It.

The Photographer And The Director Are Where Reality And Fantasy Meet.