Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things..

Art and commerce are not irreconciliable, they are inextricably intertwined..

No rock and roll ensemble, however inspired, can deliver the kind of musical variety obtainable with the resources of 110 instruments..

What’s the difference between and actor and a movie star. An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends….

My father's book is about is about a number of things, but about Houdini's rage to not be a failure like his father, and it's also about converting X….

A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built..

I'm not really interested in the exploding car or endless sort of dystopian fantasies and superheroes. None of that... that doesn't interest me very ….

But you have to understand what that really did is that it opened these DVDs to be sources of oral history instead of puff pieces for the studio, bec….

Sure you can; the only question is whether you do it well..

I wrote an article not so long ago that was published in the Los Angeles Times, and I think I titled it "Movies vs. History." But I think they had an….

Actors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn't disappear..

So the Lincoln movie gets trashed because Connecticut voted for the amendment - not to mention how the people in Connecticut feel - but there's a lot….

Audiences may be stupid, but they are never wrong..

If you look at the heroes of antiquity and myth, they all have flaws. It's something that they have to overcome; their flaws are something that they ….

The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure..

I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to ….

I think that the reason that people are so up in arms about movies that have historical inaccuracies is because now that we've trashed our education ….

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someon….

With a historical novel you know that liberties are being taken. Since Walter Scott, we know that poetic license, dramatic license, that events been ….

When you read a history or biography you are entitled to imagine that it is as accurate as the authors can make it. That research has gone into it an….

Once you decide that you're going to have the death of Spock, then how does that affect the other people? Why is it there? I got a lot of stick from ….