1. “I believe it’s true that there’s good and evil in everyone and it’s a constant struggle to have your better angels prevail.”
2. “We all wind up the same way, no matter what our goals or ambitions are. We have nothing at all to say about how we got into this world or how are going to it.”
3. “Style is something that’s extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed.”
4. “The art of movies is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations.”
5. “To me, the art of movies is to take a two-dimensional image and give the illusion of depth.”
6. “I don’t look back or analyze my films. i jut make them. It’s for someone else.”
7. “I have to see the whole scene in my head before I go out an do it. Which I do. I will envision the entire scene before I shoot it”
8. “All great countries are at odds with one another over something, and yet if they don’t cooperate they’re going to blow up.”
9. “The studios mostly threw away the negatives of the classic films. They had no interest in their legacy.”
10. “I believe today that there is no film and no shot in a film that is worth a squirrel getting a sprained ankle.”
11. “There are many untalented people making millions of dollars in the film business.”
12. “Technique is of less interest than character and story.”
13. “The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that’s what will take you from film school to professional- the idea. That’s what is original to you.”
14. “Violence is not funny.”
15. “The digital process gives me total control over how I want the film to look. the films look like they did when I was first looking through the view finder.”
