People gravitate occasionally to the brilliantly made art low budget films, which is maybe one out of every five hundred low budget films made.

There are eleven or twelve or thirteen cities in China with populations of over 10 million people and most people in the West have never even heard of these cities.

You can make a movie about anything, as long as it has a hook to hang the advertising on.

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

As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally.

I was called recently in some article "Hollywood's Oldest Established Rebel." So I'm sort of working from the inside now, with still a little bit of a rebellious spirit.

I remember the first film I reviewed for the Daily was a John Ford Western. I think it was My Darling Clementine, but I am not certain. And I was just impressed by, first, the story itself. I didn't know that much about films. But the acting, the director. And particularly, the cinematography, the black-and-white use of exteriors, I noted particularly.