Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.
I feel there is no substitute for going out to the movies. There is nothing like it.
I don’t really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies.
I think the greatest thing about DVD is the quality of sound and picture; the real estate to put more extras on; and, my favorite point is it stores quietly in very subtle places in your home .
I didn’t read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I’m older. I read them all.
I like that the best about DVD: how small it is.
I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.
The Internet has been this miraculous conduit to the undeniable truth to the Holocaust.
For one thing, I don’t think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.
I think the secret of great acting is that you have to bring your imagination to the party. You have to have a great imagination and you have to bring it every day when you’re working. Your imagination and your skills as an actor are what see you through, not what you’re wearing or where you are.
If the world ran the way a crew runs a set, we’d have a better, more progressive world.
I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.
I’m not really interested in making money.
You can’t start a movie by having the attitude that the script is finished, because if you think the script is finished, your movie is finished before the first day of shooting.
I had no choice. It was just something that happened. I was always looking for ways to act out, and I got a camera and it acted out for me.
Audrey gave more than she ever got. The whole world is going to miss her.
When I was younger, all I cared about was what people thought of me and my films. Now I care less about catering, hand-serving, hand-feeding the audience. I’ve gotten to the point now in my life where I’m serving myself.
Kurosawa is the pictorial Shakespeare of our time.
You can’t intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it’s going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is going to be relevant, if not to yourself, to the movies you make.
People have forgotten how to tell a story.