The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes.

The movies have been so rank the last couple of years that when I see people lining up to buy tickets I sometimes think that the movies aren't drawing an audience - they're inheriting an audience. People just want to go to a movie. They're stung repeatedly, yet their desire for a good movie - for any movie - is so strong that all over the country they keep lining up.

Being creative is having something to sell, or knowing how to sell something, or having sold something. It has taken over what we used to mean by being "wised up" knowing the tricks, the shortcuts.

We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn't fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we can usually make for ourselves.

I’m frequently asked why I don’t write my memoirs. I think I have.

Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.

An artist must either give up art or develop.