There are no “old” movies-only movies you have already seen and ones you haven't.

If filmmakers are ignorant of the past, they laborto re-invent the wheel in every picture. You sit and think, 'Well,we're back to 1903 here.'

Cher is one of the most talented women I've ever met. She's got depth and emotion that haven't even been touched.

There are no “old” movies-only movies you have already seen and ones you haven't.

You see so many movies... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no sense of film grammar. There's no real sense of how to tell a story visually. It's just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, you know, which is pretty easy.

Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things.

But at a certain point, and I don't really know... people have asked me this. I don't know exactly what it was that pushed me towards directing, but I think it was a naive notion that if I directed I would be able to play all the roles. A kind of greed.