[With theater] you draw the audience into the room as best you can, and in film, you can draw them into the room, you can draw them outside into the desert, you can take them out into the ocean, you can do all these amazing things.

I feel like if you can describe something fully and accurately, then people will be able to see it themselves - they don't need be told what to.

I still haven't quite caught on to the idea of writing without dialogue. I like writing dialogue, and there's nothing wrong with dialogue in movies.

Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people.

I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.

I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.

I like to let the actors work the way they want to.