In order to create art today, you have to compromise your art somewhat and be a businessman.

Jim Cameron is proof that if you are good, you'll get promoted.

In science-fiction films the monster should always be bigger than the leading lady.

There's always something that draws you away from the original script.

Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!

One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's when you end up with very bad work.

Maybe it's just a matter of getting older and being aware that the market for medium-budget and low-budget films, which is of course what I spent most of my life making, has diminished. And maybe the quantity of ideas has diminished a little bit.