The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.

[Making movies] you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality.

No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good.

It's impossible to tell you what I'm going to do except to say that I expect to make the best movie ever made.

Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.

You either connect or you don't connect. It's not the end of the world. It's a movie.

The lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have.