I want films to haunt an audience, to give them something to remember and be able to talk about.

- Irvin Kershner

In the last ten years of watching films I have found that some of the foreign films I saw affected me most. One American film that stands out for me …

- Irvin Kershner

It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need for compromise. There is no such thing as a perfec…

- Irvin Kershner

I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn't matter to me.

- Irvin Kershner

After 'The Empire Strikes Back,' I got to make big films that I didn't care about, 'Never Say Never Again' and 'RoboCop 2,' and then I got too old.

- Irvin Kershner

Film is a window to the real world but a lie that makes you believe the unbelievable.

- Irvin Kershner

I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.

- Irvin Kershner

There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.

- Irvin Kershner

We had an electronic head and arm for Threepio, and I manipulated the mechanism with a joystick. But it wasn't working. The propman said, 'Give me fi…

- Irvin Kershner