Out of all of the Star Trek movies, I happen to like the most recent one the best. I think it was the best one ever done.

Dialogue is used to reveal not what we want to say, but what we are trying to hide.

The first time I ever thought about doing a film seriously, I was in London. I was about 17 years old. I was just standing in the street, a bit dazzled by an Antonioni bus wipe, which by the way are inherent in London, and I imagined a film set in London starting out with the riff from The Yardbird's "Heart Full of Soul", and now, how ever many years later, I've done it.

I never work until I have a deadline. You have to fit so much in a given day that you just don't get serious until you know when the deadline is.

I don't trust a lot of popular films because they seem to indicate that people would like to be super-heroes or vampires, and that's the last thing I mean by the useful mirror of art.

In all honesty a gangster picture was the easiest kind of film for me to get made.

I shoot very little film. If you just do coverage you're shooting any number of potential films instead of just one, and I was shooting just one specific film. Film is cheap but time is expensive.