To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer..

I have never voted in my life..

Once a film is shot, the thing that mostly happens is that I go see all the things I would have fixed in my performance and sometimes, very rarely, I….

I'm a believer in film school..

I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and e….

I don't think that theater is the higher medium, that it's better than film..

My contribution to film has always been negligible..

I follow the rules until I go against them all..

I feel like a lot of the films I do, part of the reason I like doing them is I'm not 100 percent sure what it's going to be. It's exciting. I read an….

God is always at work around you..

Back in the '80s, a lot of the images I used were from TV or from films on TV..

Some things go slow, slow, slow, and then - wham! - they're over..

Spin-offs were never really my thing..

If you wanna do a film where you have a big scope, you've got to make your characters relatable and genuine..

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.

No one can be cured of being who they are..

I'm sure every film it's going to be like, 'Okay, this is the scene where your shirt gets ripped off.' I'll never be able to keep my shirt on..

The great appear great to us..

I love to sing, so I just figured that I was going to sing or something..

As I have got older and become a father, there's less and less time for films..

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan..