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.

What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.

I make my films like you're going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.

One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia.

I see films in theaters, and I enjoy films. I enjoy the art of storytelling, and the different ways to tell them.

Bin Laden was completely protected by the oil companies in this country who told [President] Bush not to go after him because it would piss off the Saudis.

People will go to clean theaters; they don't like to go to dirty theaters.