It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political.

What's the shelf life of a 1931 movie? If it still exists, there will always be film buffs and a niche audience who will want to see it. But in terms of people even understanding in common usage, some of the words we use to describe these movies, I don't know how long that's going to last.

Finding a writer who can write decent kids' dialog and finding kids that can act realistically and not 'cute' is an effort.

I'm always looking for films, but the horror scripts that I get tend to be very repetitive and often not that interesting.

It's a lot of power to give the director to edit his own stuff. It's also a time thing: you don't want to have to wait for the guy to finish shooting before he starts editing.

I don't believe that you can judge the worth of a movie in the atmosphere in which it comes out the first time. There's just so many reasons why some pictures don't catch on.

Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room.