I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.

As a kid, a little kid I loved going to the movies, and now I love making movies.

When you're working on a script, every word that's on the page, somebody has to read it. Make every word count in your stories.

When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!

A trilogy is a pretty abstract notion. You can apply it to almost any three things.

I think music is just a wonderful ingredient that helps us understand a scene better. And certainly you can overuse music, and you can use the wrong music. I probably have been guilty of these things over time. But if you use music correctly as a friend of the theme, a friend of the narrative, ou can lend some terrific connective tissue to a film.

Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.