The size of budgets does not alter my decision if I should do it. If there's a movie with a budget of only $1 million that I find interesting, then I'll sign up, but it has to be in the hands of a director who can do something with it. Ultimately, it's a director's medium.

Children need parameters, know what's right or wrong.

Movies are very hard to make, to get it all to come together. So many people have their say in what the end product of films are.

I'm not hooked on cognac, but I've enjoyed it over the years.

If you have the right actors and you can give them the freedom to explore, you've done a lot of your work as a director.

The promises of Fidel Castro's so-called revolution of pluralism and democracy, were and continue to be a false promise and a betrayal of all basic human rights.

A lot of things I try to instill in my children comes off of what I've learned from my parents. First of all, you have to lead by example. You can't say one thing and behave another way. Kids learn more from watching you in life than what you say to them. So I try to be the best example I can be to them.