I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.

I think movies are getting dumber, actually. Where it used to be 50/50, now it`s 3% good, 97% stupid.

It's the best of the best. No film can hope to top it(Kubrick's 2001).

Once you crack the script, everything else follows.

I spend a lot of my time just developing material; or the company does. That material can come from a book, can come from a newspaper, can come from a discussion and sometimes it can come from a script that got passed over and is floating around.

There is an access to... people can now afford very high quality technology, where you can have a very good reproduction of a large picture on a large screen at home. People go out less. There's all kinds of reasons. I don't know that it's going to stay that way but, I think also, we've got to start making better movies.

I'm a moviemaker, not a documentarian. I try to hit the truth.