A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.

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

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

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.

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.

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