Movies are the art form most like man's imagination.

If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business.

I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.

Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He's very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best, and he's been very successful.

Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.

The whole reason one wants to do lower budget films is because the lower the budget, the bigger the ideas, the bigger the themes, the more interesting the art.

When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget.