I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school.

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 made this movie for $40,000, which was this little black-and-white horror film called Dementia 13, which we made in about nine days.

When that happens - when risk is taken and the filmmakers dive into the subject matter without a parachute - very often what you get it something with those qualities that make it age well with the public.

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.

I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.

When a movie is about to come out on its initial debut, there are a lot of people involved - the financiers, the studio and the producers and also, many times, the foreign distributors. So it is a time of tremendous pressure and uncertainty.