I think once you've finished a movie you really have to detach from it so that you can come back and watch it as an audience member.

I've never been a big fan of the music-video style of editing movies that crept in the last few decades. I like stuff that's able to take its time.

If you're going to succeed, you've got to be like one of those punch-drunk fighters in the old Warner Bros. boxing pictures: too stupid to fall down, you just keep slugging and stay on your feet.

I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.

I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

Boy, I'd hate to shoot on tape or disc or whatever the hell they're talking about. I love film.