Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies.
I think intelligence is totally subjective; it's like sexiness.
The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two.
My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.
In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light.
Hollywood is great. I also think it's stupid and small-minded and shortsighted.
I don't know how to depict intelligence.
I'm totally anti-commercialism.
If I could be anyone, it would be Brad Pitt.
You know, I don't think I've ever listened to someone's commentary. Ever.
You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.
How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.
For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.
A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.
I like studios. I just don't like bureaucracies.
Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine.
A lot of people hated 'Alien 3.'
I loved Luke Skywalker and I loved Darth Vader and I loved watching them work it out.
There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I'll just have to go over and watch.
We were working with this lousy print and it just wasn't going to be good enough. I said that we should get the original negative and do it from that. Well, a couple guys pointed out that the negative was locked up over at Deluxe.
