People say, You paid your dues, but I never paid any dues. It's always been a great trip.

When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work.

If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world.

In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor.

I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor.

Superman was never previewed because the producers didn't trust Warners with the film.

It's only been a couple of times in my life that I've really locked horns with actors. It did not hurt the films, it just hurt the moment of the filmmaking.