I did 50 takes on Robert Shaw assembling the Greener Gun on 'Jaws.' The shark wasn't working, so I just kept shooting to make the production report look like we were accomplishing something and to keep cast and crew from going crazy from boredom. It was a strategic indulgence.

Some movies I make for myself. I just sort of make them for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter is very sensitive and very personal and I really can't imagine I'm an audience.

Wherever you are, I will find you and I will bring you home

The thing that I'm just scared to death of is that someday I'm going to wake up and bore somebody with a film.

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

I committed to directing 'Catch Me If You Can' not because of the divorce component, but principally because Frank Abagnale did things that were the most astonishing scams I had ever heard.

I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience.