The films that influenced me were so disparate that there's almost no pattern.

I'm certainly not a fan of conversion when you could shoot the movie in 3-D.

I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed the visual opportunities of the scene when we had put things in front of them as opportunities. Set pieces, props and so on.

Hate is a disease, and in 1930 I became sick with hatred.

Failure is an option, fear is not.

The films that influenced me were so disparate that there's almost no pattern.

I've sworn off agnosticism, which I now call cowardly atheism. I've come to the position that in the complete absence of any supporting data whatsover for the persistence of the individual in some spiritual form, it is necessary to operate under the provisional conclusion that there is no afterlife and then be ready to amend that if I find out otherwise.