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.

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.

Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.

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

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

I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.