I've sort of closed my mind off to reality shows: I just don't watch them, don't care about them, don't know who the characters are, but they're all ….

I go to a lot of independents and foreign films. I really try to keep up and see what there is to see. If you really love movies, it's the act of wat….

What's the shelf life of a 1931 movie? If it still exists, there will always be film buffs and a niche audience who will want to see it. But in terms….

Editing is kind of a solitary job..

Repetitiveness is one of the things that's most difficult to get away from in genre pictures, because people come specifically to see certain kinds o….

You do form a cadre of people that you trust and who are good at their jobs and who know you and what your quirks and foibles are. It makes making mo….

I mean, movies are all geared to be basically under 25, and they're all tentpoles, explosions, excitement and all that - they take advantage of the b….

It's a lot of power to give the director to edit his own stuff. It's also a time thing: you don't want to have to wait for the guy to finish shooting….

I think that anybody that wants to direct, particularly writers, should spend some time in an editing room, whether it's a film of theirs or someone ….

I think I entered the market around the time when there was getting to be less snobbery about the difference between feature films and television. I ….

Movies cost so much that studios really try to impose their personality over yours. A lot of times, you can get swallowed up in that and end up makin….

It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political..

I've made a lot of movies with kids in them. I don't know why that is, but it's something I've noticed..

There's so little difference between television and features as far as you make the film. I mean, you have less money and it's a little quicker, but ….

I really have to feel that I could make a difference in the movie, or I shouldn't be doing it..

The dynamic is extremely similar to Gremlins and the hero is very similar, plus the small town atmosphere. It really is in a way the third Gremlins m….

Movies get found in the editing room. The movie that you make is not always necessarily the movie that comes out of the editing room. The trick is to….

Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room..

If you're doing a family movie, you don't want it to be stupid. Farting chihuahuas is not my idea of entertainment for kids or adults. So you try to ….

When the first movie to show the anger people have about the war is a grade Z zombie movie, that tells you all you need to know about how afraid of r….

One of the things I've always tried to do is to inject myself as much as possible into the movie, so I feel like it's mine..