We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director.

I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.

It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.

If you find that a point cannot be made without narration, it is virtually certain that the point is unimportant to the story (which is to say, to the audience).

We all die in the end, but there's no reason to die in the middle.