The actors are in control, getting outrageous amounts of money. The reason they're getting this kind of money is because the studios don't know what ….

You see so many movies... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no sense of film grammar. There's….

The criterion for judging whether a movie is successful or not is time..

There are no “old” movies-only movies you have already seen and ones you haven't..

But at a certain point, and I don't really know... people have asked me this. I don't know exactly what it was that pushed me towards directing, but ….

If filmmakers are ignorant of the past, they laborto re-invent the wheel in every picture. You sit and think, 'Well,we're back to 1903 here.'.

I think one of the reasons younger people don't like older films, films made say before the '60s, is that they've never seen them on a big screen, ev….

Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things..

There's good directors and bad directors. Some of the critics are really conscientious and really try to do what they can popularize the work or to e….

Cher is one of the most talented women I've ever met. She's got depth and emotion that haven't even been touched..

One of the things that wrong with pictures today, I think, is that so many of the people making them started out wanting to..