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

I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.

I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation.

I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.

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.

Every movie requires its own style. Just be honest to the story. Tell the story in the best possible way that is different, exciting and original.

It was a tough experience with Alan Horn, who didn't like anything that was R-rated. So you can imagine he hated some of my films.