No doubt you are as alarmed as I by the tragic decline in America's language skills. If 10 people read the following sentence: Two tanker trucks has just overturned in Alaska, spilling a totel of 10,000 gallons of beer onto a highway. two would find an error in subject-verb agreement, two would find an error in spelling, and six would find a sponge and drive north.

Any good movie is filled with secrets.

It's not a filmmaker's job to explain his technique but to tell his story the best way he can.

If you want to be a legend, God help you, it's so easy. You just do one thing. You can be the master of suspense, say. But if you want to be as invisible as is practical, then it's fun to do a lot of different things.

Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried.

Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone the police and report, There's a naked person outside!

I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That’s the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.