When you're talking horror or sci-fi, you're working in a genre that has loosely certain thematic elements, or, you could even call them rules. But r….

I think one of the reasons movies are the quintessential modern art form is that it is partially a business. The director needs a crew - the writer, ….

In order to create art today, you have to compromise your art somewhat and be a businessman..

In science-fiction films the monster should always be bigger than the leading lady..

The safest genre is the horror film. But the most unsafe - the most dangerous - is comedy. Because even if your horror film isn't very good, you'll g….

Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this c….

One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's when you end up with very bad work..

Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were making, saying it was just something to make mone….

There's always something that draws you away from the original script..

When I started I had no knowledge of films whatsoever. I was an engineering major at Stanford. And I found out as a senior that they had two film cri….

Martin Scorsese was one of the few who had not been an assistant. Most of the guys had been an assistant and worked their way up. But I had seen an u….

I remember the first film I reviewed for the Daily was a John Ford Western. I think it was My Darling Clementine, but I am not certain. And I was jus….

Maybe it's just a matter of getting older and being aware that the market for medium-budget and low-budget films, which is of course what I spent mos….

You learn, of course, when you're working with something good, but you also can learn when you're working with things that are not good. You can see ….

When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our fil….

I love the process of making films and an incidental satisfaction is the fact that most of them made money..

I do believe motion pictures are the significant art form of our time. And I think the main reason is, they're an art form of movement, as opposed to….

Jim Cameron is proof that if you are good, you'll get promoted..

I look for the ability to work. Directing is hard work. They don't teach you that in film school. Critics are not aware of it, but it is hard, physic….

I was young, so I was part of youth culture. The years went by, I became older and no longer part of youth culture, and I became more dependent upon ….

There were two practical reasons we moved to Venice. One was that there was an artists movement and a countercultural movement. Lots of people we mig….