Technique is of less interest than character and story.

When you go to a studio with something you want to make, or they come to you with something they want to make, more often than not, it's a tent pole. Not something one single person is really passionate about on a creative level.

The studios are making fewer films. They are making more expensive films. Profits are tougher to come by. Not only because of the expense of production. But also because of the expense of promotion and hype. To boil that all down, it's more about hype than it is about filmmaking.

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.

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.

When you make a Blu-ray, its not the same as the print process was. You have little or no control over any print that was ever made. You are a victim of the 35mm printing process.

I really think that sex always looks kind of funny in a movie.