A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars.
When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.
The day I can't walk is the day I quit movies.
I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.
In some ways, what I need is a wife.
I'm still very critical of myself in film.
I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish.
You have to believe. You have to stick to your guns.
Documentaries can embrace contradictions in a way that journalism can't.
And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!
That was all and it was enough for me: fantasies are better left fantasies.
Film-making is a physically hard job.
A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest.
No one in my writers' room can wear sweatpants.
For a director, the most challenging scenes are the dialogue scenes.
There has been one defining production for me in each decade.
Interview with a Vampire was lots of sex, so I'm not sure.
I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.
Nowadays the audience has changed. No one can anticipate the audience.
Sometimes strange fiction, becomes grim reality.
