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.

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

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

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

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.

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.