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

I think once you've finished a movie you really have to detach from it so that you can come back and watch it as an audience member.

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

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

One of my favorite movies of all time is 'It's A Wonderful Life', which is a pretty interesting choice for a seasonal Christmas favorite, because it's about a guy who wants to commit suicide and is presented with reasons not to.

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