A good [film] director is talented, imaginative, and does his homework.

Technology has a great deal to do with it. The Panaflex camera was a big breakthrough when it came along; it changed everything, because now you could shoot from the perspective of a person riding in the backseat of a car.

I think that film is still an artform and it doesn't really matter if you're using a digital camera or a film camera.

There is something more to "reality" than just the tangible. There is also mood, and you cannot skip that.

I'm always looking in the lighting to tell the story in a different way than it actually looks in real life because it's, for me, more contrast sometimes has to mean it's softer than normal.

I am actually retired - yes, I am retired. But I like to work. So I'm retired until someone calls me up to work.

What I would suggest to the young people is to not forget this and don't try to get assimilated into today's Hollywood style of movies because I don't think it's going to last long.