I'm lucky enough that there is never a blank canvas in front of me, ... I have hundreds of projects that I want to do but I am running out of time.

It also helps that Chinese contractors tend to do the work on their projects.

We don't count on the booth money for our operating budget, but it always funds one of our major projects.

You wonder whether or not consolidating all these road projects is going to backfire like the '79 snowstorm did on [Chicago Mayor Michael] Bilandic.

I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn't care what kind of movies I made.