Ultimately, a more experienced director realizes that you've got to stop sometime and just move on. They're braver about that.

It's hard on an actor when you have to do a scene 45 times and you know damn well that three of the angles a director is shooting will never make it into the movie.

Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.

A favorite cast? Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and my wife.

I don't know if it's fair to say that it's a bad time for movies. It seems to me that throughout the entire history of filmmaking, every year there have been about two really wonderful movies, about 10 others that are pretty good, and a whole pile of garbage.

It's not good for people to have the safety net too low... People can take care of themselves better than we allow them to.

If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.