I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen well and I've learned that ….

There are two things I will never do in my life. I will never climb Mount Everest, and I will never work with Val Kilmer again. There isn't enough mo….

But I really am very active in the choice of the line producer with the producer of record and the distributing company, because I've had some terrib….

I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel..

One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen..

I really, really love directing films..

I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has..

I think that you can't make a movie without a script. But you also can't make movies without actors. You also can't make movies without technicians. ….

The world is full of beautiful girls. But they're not Angelina Jolie. She's fun, honest, intelligent, gorgeous and divinely talented. She brings a he….

It's very eclectic, the way one chooses subjects in the movie business, especially in the commercial movie business. You need to develop material you….

You have to be a great storyteller. And you have to master the tools that you have to tell the story which are, inorder of importance, the script, th….

Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that ther….

So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies..

The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized..

If you cast the picture correctly, you have a whole lot of leeway. You can make mistakes in other aspects but pull it off with the right actors..

The accolades usually come when you're dead or too old to get a job.

The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie..

And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God,….

One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well.

I have gotten to a point in my life where I don't want to have dinner with someone I don't like..

First, speaking for myself, I don't want to ever be in a position where I'm telling other directors how to make movies, because I don't think it's an….