Teachers are the most important individuals in our society - nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education.

Success is when you try to achieve your inward vision externally and have it come off the way you see it. Then YOU feel successful about it; that's how success is measured.

You can't do it unless you can imagine it.

There are a lot of movies that are badly made that I love, and there are a lot of movies that are just beautifully made but I don't like them. And critics have a tendency - that's all they focus on, which is, "I like it. I don't like it. It's good. It's bad."

Film is a very tight little box. If you don't fit in that box, you're gone. Television, there's more room to move around.

Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.

I am very concerned about our national heritage, and I am very concerned that the films that I watched when I was young and the films that I watched throughout my life are preserved, so that my children can see them.