I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?

I guess you could say Alexander the Great was a man who completely transported me and moved me and inspired me because of his idealism, and I'd go back to the Greeks, and I always liked Homer and all the philosophers and their way of thinking and their concept of honor. I think their concept of honor does apply to the modern age, and certain people that walk around are pre-Christian.

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.

If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.

What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.

It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.