A film is a living thing. The screenplay is a guideline. You really need to have a good, sound script to know that you have a dramatic structure that's going to work thematically, and to know how one scene will got through another, and to get a sense of character.

Listen, I like great actors. You can be a movie star without being a great actor - this has been proved several times - and I like my casts to have great actors. Acting is more important to me than being a star.

I don't actually like blocking actors. I prefer giving actors freedom. They don't have to step on a precise mark with me. Instead of giving marks to the actors I like to give marks to the camera.

Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people.

I love the sharpness and political tone of RoboCop and I think that such a film is now urgently needed.

I think the media needs a little criticizing now, as it did in the '80s, don't you?

Usually I say I have no imagination.