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.

Jack [Nicholson] really knows about the camera. He's one of the directors who likes to play with the camera. He'll change things around, play with lighting, things like that. He'll even spend hours on the set-up for an insert shot. He's an interested person who gets involved in all the aspects of the films he is making.

With television, it's difficult to do some things. You have to shoot so many minutes a day, so you always have to be prepared or you won't be able to complete the number of pages that you have scheduled for that day.

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.

Some movies are what I would call murky. Just because it's murky doesn't make it artistic. It makes it hard to see.

I think too many film students in America are losing the artistry and not learning lighting the right way.

I don't like to be in front of the camera - my place is behind the camera.