I've seen my own films close to a thousand times in one form or another. When you edit them. When you shoot them. Then you run them over and over again for sound and music. Then you'd go to premiere screenings, and have to do promotional screenings in other cities. I can't watch any of my old films.

If you call yourself a non-believer, you're referring to disbelief in something, and you're acknowledging that there is something to believe in or not.

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

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.

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

Technique is of less interest than character and story.

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.