Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.

I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.

When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.

This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.