Butte was once a grand city. To me, that city is like one big stage for Edward Hopper. You could put your camera anywhere, and you felt you were looking at his paintings.

Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.

It's a great lesson in modesty that you realize you're illiterate in a field that you think you're an expert in.

I think seeing happens partly through the eyes, but not entirely.

Filmmaking is really connected to life and all of the expressions that different arts found to allow access to life. Filmmaking touches on all of it.

Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.

Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie.