I am fascinated with times past.

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

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

The amazing thing about any movie is not whether it's good, but that it got made at all.

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.

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