Up until the middle to late '60s, it was a choice to film in black-and-white or color. But then television became so vital to a film's finance, and t….

There are always forces at work in a society, certainly in America, which are really forces of censorship -either religious bodies or zealots who are….

I think most films are too predictable. They follow familiar patterns. I suppose audiences like to know where they stand but I like films that take m….

What is passion? Passion is surely the becoming of a person..

Movie-making is the process of turning money into light. All they have at the end of the day is images flickering on a wall..

You can't get an actor to do something that is beyond his range, so you have to be aware of the range of the actor and, if necessary, alter the part ….

When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting..

I'm trying to suggest a kind of Middle Earth, in Tolkien terms. It's a contiguous world; it's like ours but different..

I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole body of myth and see where the characters fit in and what ….

What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most of our being is at rest, unlived. In pa….

I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew..

It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not critically attu….

I love green. Green is the color of nature, trees. I'm a tree freak. I spend a lot of my time planting trees, nurturing them, and studying them. It's….

All art is fundamentally subversive, because it upsets people's perceptions, their notions about society. Therefore, art is dangerous, but good art i….

In the '60s and '70s it was a great period for American films because studios were still run by individuals who worked off the seat of their pants an….

There's always been this strand of filmmaking in Britain which is like socialist neo-realism. That's always been there. I've never been part of that,….

All the interesting films are now being made by their subsidiaries for very low budgets. But the studios are not making money. They're making these b….

There are always forces at work in a society, which are really forces of censorship - either religious bodies or zealots who are always putting press….

Black and white is much closer to the condition of dreaming. It links you to the subconscious and I think that was part of the great appeal of movi….

Black-and-white gives you that sort of parallel world. Also, it's very close to the condition of dreaming, to the unconscious..

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived..