I’d rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.
Actors just need each other to act together.
People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don’t have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.
I always like to play with my kids. I always have the time to do that. That’s my priority, always has been, so just interacting with my kids, and being with them is great.
Tracking action without cutting is the least jarring method of placing the audience into a real-time experience where they are the ones making the subtle choices of where and when to look.
Steve Jobs was the greatest inventor since Thomas Edison. He put the world at our fingertips.
I believe in 3D for certain kinds of films. I certainly believe in using 3D for all things in animation because animation has such clarity and so much depth of focus. It worked great with ‘Avatar’ because 70 percent of that film is animated.
When I grow up, I still want to be a director.
I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there’s film going through the camera.
The baby boomers owe a big debt of gratitude to the parents and grandparents – who we haven’t given enough credit to anyway – for giving us another generation.
The only time I’m totally happy is when I’m watching films or making them.
In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible.
I basically went into business for myself. But it never amounted to anything. I learned a lot about editing and dubbing by watching all the professionals do it, but I never got a job out of my imposition.
It’s still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal.
Like, I took no poetic license with ‘Schindler’s List’ because that was historical, factual documents.
Lincoln’s leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people.
I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.
I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.
I have a choice – I can either watch all the dailies, or I can follow the social media. I can’t do both.
A lot of the films I’ve made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that’s just because I have a lot of old-fashion values.