It's funny when you put music up against picture, and all your preconceptions go away, and you start over. You just realize that that doesn't work at all.

I like to write about love plus an obstacle. Not a really big obstacle; not too serious and not too funny. Just somewhere nicely in between - a combination of the two.

Sometimes you go against what they say because you believe in it anyway.

Believe me, you can be in the middle of a beautiful take and the next thing you know you're awash in people crossing the street. You can't even find your actors.

You want to surround yourself with people who are as dedicated to their discipline as you are to yours and let them do what they do.

Your favorite story, whatever it might be, was written for one reader

I knew I wanted to work in Cinemascope because I find it much more beautiful just in terms of the shape of the screen, the wider image, and it's also less like television, which is important.