I only said 'Titanic' is unwatchable because one can not watch it.

There's a powerful magic about being a writer that I still marvel at.

Dolby was in the driver's seat. "Surround Sound" was added. Now we had three speakers behind the screen, two more on the left side of the theater, and two on the right. A closely guarded secret about all this is that you hear the correct balance only if you're sitting in the center of the theater. On the left or right side, those speakers tend to dominate.

In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.

There's no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors.

For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.

Don't let the difficulty of actually achieving a shot make you think that the shot is good.