I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three.

I'm hoping one day I can make one really good film.

I could never be a part of an adaptation of a film where there's pressure to not disappoint the immense fan base. In those cases, they often wind up with filmed books on tape, quite uncinematic. Having said that, I'd say all the adaptations I've done are quite faithful to the original... You have to pick and choose which storylines and plot threads, because you don't have the time to kill in the film as they have in novels. All those pages with detours and plots and different storylines. But films add a lot, and you gotta keep it moving.

I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.

I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.

This is how good movies get made and always have: from the gut instinct of the financiers, not just by committee and research.

A lot of documentaries have been made very quickly, but I think they're like frogs in an ecosystem: They're harbingers. Film is always two or three years behind, because it takes so long to write a script, get financing, and get it made. It just takes a while. But I think it's coming. It has to.