There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.

Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions.

There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro.

More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.

The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure of the script.