I like to say that films are never finished, they're only abandoned.

Over time I began to realize that the level of cinema criticism in the last part of XX century in the United States was pretty low. The institution itself is not what it's supposed to be, and I realized that I didn't need to take that seriously.

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

If you want to be successful in a particular field of endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities.

One of the amazing things about 'Seven Samurai' is that there are a lot of characters. And considering you have so many, and they all have shaved heads, and you've got good guys and bad guys and peasants, you get to understand a lot of them without too much being said.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.

A movie is never finished, only abandoned.