I love to make movies about young people - young scientists that are inventing things and all the writing they did was very funny and very true.

If you use hand-held techniques just to make the film stylish I think it's wrong.

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

It's all about special effects and explosions now. It leaves me just cold when I walk out of the theater. There's no heart; there's no soul. Movies used to be about people. It's as though we don't tell stories any more. The studios have to make money, and if you want to make $20 million, you have to spend $200 million.

Mexican cinematographers Gabriel Figueroa and Emilio Fernandez were students of both Sergei Eisenstein and Toland. Their exteriors and lighting were gorgeous. And the films Ingmar Bergman did with Sven Nykvist were exceptional.

You can't just stick with what you know, you have to evolve.

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