As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place.

If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.

I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.

But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a responsibility to the audience to be shooting with the absolute highest quality technology that I can and make the film in a way that I want.

A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy's shoulders to let him know that the world hadn't ended.

To me, any kind of filmmaking that's reactive is not going to be as good as something more inventive and original.

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.