Star Wars was great at the beginning and crap at the end while Star Trek has always been interesting, and the difference is in the writing, and the thematic intentions.

Saying directors don't write because they don't type is very wrong, it's like saying Dylan doesn't write music because he doesn't write notation.

I love editorial and sound and music, and I was working with the best people, so you learn a lot.

If you see, as I do, in edited film, you're going to end up as a director.

I don't think Roger Ebert has ever mentioned a screenplay. He assigns every auctorial move to the director, which makes some sense since the director has run a one-off game, but if Hamlet were written last year and had been only performed once as a film, and it didn't come off well on screen for whatever reason, it would be gone forever as a literary work, and never would have been considered as one.

Whatever you cut when there's no deadline isn't really a cut. You're just pushing colors around.

I hate doing anything in offices. I either want to be out in the world or in my own environment - and it should be your own environment that you work in.