Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.

Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you can do with illusions and working within the confines of the studio.

I'm very proud of my flops, as much as of my successes.

Most filmmakers can't afford to try something out that doesn't work.

I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it.

I have always credited the writer of the original material above the title: Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or John Grisham's The Rainmaker. I felt that I didn't have the right to Francis Coppola's anything unless I had written the story and the screenplay.

Time is the lens through which dreams are captured.