Sound is 50 percent of the movie going experience, and I've always believed audiences are moved and excited by what they hear in my movies at least as much as by what they see.

People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.

If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

I want to live where I want to live, and I will make films because I love to make films.

Heroes come in all sizes, and you don't have to be a giant hero. You can be a very small hero. It's just as important to understand that accepting self-responsibi lity for the things you do, having good manners, caring about other people-these are heroic acts. Everybody has the choice of being a hero or not being a hero every day of their lives.

I'm aware that dialogue isn't my strength. I use it as a device. I don't particularly like dialogue which is part of the problem.