I think great movies have to have some great moments in them to bring them up to that level.

[FBI] philosophy is "Go ahead and make the story you want to make, and hopefully we'll love it." So that's that.

There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person.

If you can make a good picture that actually has some substance, that's doubly good nowadays 'cause most everybody else is trying to address how many CGI plates we're gonna do, what little being is gonna come in from another asteroid.

You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

I'd been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years. And then, in 1970, when I first started directing, I if I could pull this off, I can some day just move in back of the camera and stay there.