There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films..

As much as I like watching horror films, I never thought I would act in them..

I am concerned that the subtlety is being lost and every film tends to look very contrasty and saturated..

Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are..

'Butch Cassidy' was the only film I ever enjoyed making..

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

I'd love to make a sequel to 'The Rocketeer.' The film didn't do as well at the box office as we all hoped, but it has endured and generated a follow….

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

In my films that I've directed, and my work in commercials and videos, I've rarely used handheld. It's just not something I'm drawn to, but I've seen….

I never made a film which fully satisfied me..

I think it's very repressive for a woman to be constantly told that she has to make films about women to better represent women, but then the reverse….

Film is like eating to me. It feels completely natural..

One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments..

I would like to do more feature work. I intend to do that. To be really honest, it's an economic thing because when you make a film that doesn't make….

I had a grandmother who would always encourage me to learn about theater and film..

Pauline Kael had seen Nashville, and she loved Nashville. When I called her, she immediately responded to me because we had become friends, and I tol….

James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence..

An Ingmar Bergman film would probably owe a sizeable bulk of its import and its direction and its quality to the directorial end and to the director ….

I love making films more than anything, but it's tough..

Everybody said I was good, but being known and not having a big film success is almost tougher than being completely new. It just kind of turned my l….

Film is an itch I have yet to scratch..