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

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

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

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 am fascinated with times past.

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

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