As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally..

My father was an engineer, .. But I found out that the film critics for the Stanford Daily got free passes for all the films. So I became first an as….

I'm not going to shoot seven days a week. I think it's counterproductive. I think you're going to have people stumbling around after a couple of week….

When I started, every film got a full theatrical distribution. Today, almost no low budget films, maybe two or three a year, will get a full theatric….

There are eleven or twelve or thirteen cities in China with populations of over 10 million people and most people in the West have never even heard o….

You can make a movie about anything, as long as it has a hook to hang the advertising on..

Somebody said, 'Roger doesn't know how to spend money.' And I thought, 'I don't spend money because I don't have it!' If I had it, I could spend mone….

A great director, first, is highly intelligent. And he is also a dedicated and willing to work hard. Now those are easy things to identify. The third….

I think anybody who's working in a creative medium is working partially with their conscious mind, partially with their unconscious mind. So, my unco….

I was called recently in some article "Hollywood's Oldest Established Rebel." So I'm sort of working from the inside now, with still a little bit of ….

Somebody who moved up very fast was Jim Cameron, who was a young guy out of - I think he came from Arizona, from some community college there, and he….

First, you have to be intelligent. I have never met a successful director who isn't intelligent. A director who is not intelligent might have one hit….

I've never made the film I wanted to make. No matter what happens, it never turns out exactly as I hoped..

Horror films have been with us forever, so you can't say I originated that in any way, but it sort of brought back a classical way to make a horror f….

I think the art film, or the auteur-driven film - and not only foreign, but domestic films following that path - can get a small share of the box off….

There was a fairly big difference between Detroit and Beverly Hills. I remember this. Detroit actually was a prosperous bustling city when we moved h….

People gravitate occasionally to the brilliantly made art low budget films, which is maybe one out of every five hundred low budget films made..

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

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….

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….