Every time you run a 35mm print, it picks up scratches. It picks up dirt. Sometimes it breaks, and you have to re-splice it. You lose frames. This doesn't happen with digital or Blu-ray. I think that's great. Because I love the new media.

I believe today that there is no film and no shot in a film that is worth a squirrel getting a sprained ankle.

I don't like 3D. I don't believe there is any film that I have seen and loved that would have been improved by a scintilla in 3D. To me, it's just a gimmick.

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.

There are certain things that happen during the production of, I think, every film, that you didn't plan, and often it's better than what you did plan. There's the question of either going with it or not.

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.

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