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.

Jack: Where to, Miss? Rose: To the stars.

We have a great responsibility. Whatever we make will become the truth, the visual reality that a generation will accept.

The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.

If it was up to the studio, everything would be shot with a camcorder.

Every time my cameras go out on a movie, we learn something new and then we take what we learn and we put it into the next generation of the cameras so we're constantly improving. It's kind of like building a race car, racing it, then running back to the shop and working on the engine some more and tinkering with it to improve it.

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