If Gary Cooper and Henry Fonda had a baby, it would be Matthew Modine.

I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.

Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines things.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem

I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.

Nothing is as dangerous as a sure thing.