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."

Stop your grinnin and drop your linen

I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age!

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

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.

It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.

It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set.