I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.

I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.

I love to go to a regular movie theater, especially when the movie is a big crowd-pleaser. It's much better watching a movie with 500 people making noise than with just a dozen.

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

There is something that you have that no one else ever had ... When you watch Kirk's [Douglas] performance in anything, in anything he's ever done, you cannot take your eyes off of him. It's not possible to look away from him.

I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.

I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.