There is a narrative to every life, and I believe in the classic mode of storytelling that goes back to Homer and carries through to today.

With television, the image has been degenerated, no question. With the internet, commercials... people are much too cynical about image. It's stale. And all over the world, not just America.

We could learn a lot from the ancients, and we should go back there.

You don't always have to have an e-book. You can have a real book. I'd like to see the old way maintain.

I think any filmmaker will tell you when they wandered from theater to theater to watch their prints, it was disheartening to see the poor levels of light and the disrespect for films that existed in certain theater chains. It was always inconsistent. And in the lab, too, the photochemical process was very difficult to watch, because sometimes they were shipping prints that you didn't even know were two points off or three points off. We suffered greatly to make these films, and they'd be out-of-focus, with the sound too low.

I think you should do rehearsal and work at it, but when the camera rolls, you should be ready. Try to make it good the first time.

I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.