I just think that the qualities of leadership are unknown even to the leader until he's tested and given a challenge.

Humans are the only hunters who kill when not hungry.

My dad's been responsible for a lot of my issues.

History is so fleeting and we are so busy consuming media and the contemporary culture, voraciously gobbling it up, that we have no room to look back ever, and our young people have a tough time looking back.

I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.

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.

Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.