So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.

Making a movie is like a stagecoach ride through the Old West: at first you wish for a pleasant trip, and after a while you just hope you reach your destination.

I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There's good in everything, I find.

I'll probably never win an Oscar, but I'll sure have a lot of fun! I really believe that movies are the great escape.

People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.

The older I get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle.

Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people.