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

'Star Wars' gave birth to all the computer-generated superhero films.

You are always cheating for the audience.

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.

The Blu-ray is the real cinematech of world cinema. That's how it's being preserved. All of these guys that are trying to preserve 35mm negatives? They are wasting their time. There are better ways to see and project this stuff. It's called digital.

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

I had absolutely no focus as a kid. I never paid attention at school, I never went to college. Not because we were too poor; we were. But if I wanted to go to college, I would have found a way.