You make the film with all the terror and panic of somebody going to war. You hope you're going to come out the other side, but nothing's certain. You just have to tell your story with as much purity as you can, if you love it. I think of someone like John Ford, who made scores of films, and I remember like four or five. That's pretty magnificent, really, when you think of it.
Directors have problems today because it takes so long to get a movie together.
You can't make 50 movies the way things work now. I'd be pretentious if I felt that's what I wanted to do. Yes, I would. But the drive to make a movie is the whole process, in a way. You're doing it because you want to tell a story or because you learn things.