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.

All the great countries are at odds with one another over something, and yet if they don't cooperate they're going to blow up.

Star Wars is one of a handful of films that changed the zeitgeist forever.

There are many untalented people making millions of dollars in the film business.

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

Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed.

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.