The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

So give yourself that chance to put together the 80, 90 pages of a draft and then read it very in a nice little ceremony, where you're comfortable, and you read it and make good notes on it, what you liked, what touched you, what moved you, what's a possible way, and then you go about on a rewrite.

Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do.

You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again.

Death is what makes life an event.

I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.

I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.