One of my favorite movies of all time is 'It's A Wonderful Life', which is a pretty interesting choice for a seasonal Christmas favorite, because it's about a guy who wants to commit suicide and is presented with reasons not to.

I am fascinated with times past.

I just tell you what a pleasure it is to get back to the kind of filmmaking I used to be allowed to do.

The amazing thing about any movie is not whether it's good, but that it got made at all.

The human race is fundamentally insane. If you put two of us into a room together we're soon gonna start figuring out good reasons to kill one another.

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.

Stanley Kubrick was a big inspiration. People accuse me of never using my own material. But when did Kubrick? You look at his films and they are completely unique... completely separate entities.