If Star Wars had failed, you wouldn't have 90 percent of what's out there today.

Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest

The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That's what is original to you.

The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor's work can take place, so that the actor can create. And in order to do that, you have to communicate, communicate with the actors. And direction is about communication on all levels.

I have to see the whole scene in my head before I go out and do it. Which I do. I will envision the entire scene before I shoot it.

The studios mostly threw away the negatives of the classic films. They had no interest in their legacy.

I don't look back or analyze my films. I just make them. It's for someone else to look at.