As a director, you're given a tremendous apparatus to work with, and very great talents are available to you.

I think that scripts should be published, but they are published, really, because when you're a screenwriter, your stuff ends up in samizdat form on thousands and thousands of desks and shelves across the industry.

I never viewed screen drama as a vulgar form, or a lesser one, and I've never written it left-handed.

Because you're running an enterprise with two hundred-odd people, and it's really your responsibility to keep it moving quickly. So you have to know what you're doing, do it, and move on.

You never know what people are going to go and see.

I don't watch anything. I work so much. If I see a film, it's usually that I'll go in after working 15 hours and slam in The Bridge on the River Kwai or something.

I don't think the latest Star Wars pictures have any artistic intentions, but the original picture opened up epic science fiction.