A good filmmaker is someone who can look at a piece and go, "This camera's really going to be a character. I want people to feel like they're being punched."

Through readiness and discipline, we are the masters of our fate.

In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it's all up to you.

When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.

It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.

We mystify the art of moviemaking, but it's not amystical science. You take a good screenplay, put a group togetherand you hammer it out.

Slow motion is so visually cinematic; when you create that, you create it for your audience, you let them have the feeling of what it must be like to be there. And in a movie, you can't forget the audience.