I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: "Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar."

All good, clean stories are melodrama, it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.

I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.

In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.

I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraway place.

Accept certain inalienable truths.