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.

The only person who can, with impunity, make the movie he wants to make, has got to be Steven Spielberg.

The Exorcist' is amazing because it recognizes that silences can be as powerful as sound effects.

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

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

To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.

I'm still learning. It's all a learning curve. Every time you sit down, with any given episode of any given show, it is a learning curve. You're learning something new about how to tell a story. But then, I've felt that way about everything I've ever done - television, features or whatever. Directing or writing, it always feels like the first day of school to me.