There were centuries when civilization had no theater.

My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.

[I have a] fondness for telling stories, like the Arab storytellers on the marketplace. ... I will never grow tired of [telling] stories [and] I make the mistake of thinking that everyone has the same enthusiasm!

Each multiplex has screens allocated to each studio. The screens need filling. Studios have to create product to fill their screen, and the amount of good product is limited.

I seem to have no dress sense at all. I'm always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as "looking like an unmade bed." He was right!

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.