What we need is someone to abolish the House Of Lords, get rid of the Royal Family.

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

Movie-making is the process of turning money into light. All they have at the end of the day is images flickering on a wall.

And you poor creatures--who conjured you out of the clay? Is God in show business, too?

I'm trying to suggest a kind of Middle Earth, in Tolkien terms. It's a contiguous world; it's like ours but different.

Up until the middle to late '60s, it was a choice to film in black-and-white or color. But then television became so vital to a film's finance, and television won't show black-and-white. So that killed it off, really.

I only storyboard scenes that require special effects, where it is necessary to communicate through pictures.