Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though.

I am a storyteller, and I do love ideas.

The Greek playwrights, we're all beholden to them, every one of us.

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.

Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind.

My protest against digital has been me saying, "What's going to happen to film?" The result is that Kodak is out of business. That's a national tragedy. We've got to keep making film.