In prosperity you may count on many friends; if the sky becomes overcast you will be alone.
I've never been a big fan of the music-video style of editing movies that crept in the last few decades. I like stuff that's able to take its time.
A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.
The Exorcist' is amazing because it recognizes that silences can be as powerful as sound effects.
Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.
I'm still learning. It's all a learning curve. Every time you sit down, with any given episode of any given show, it is a learning curve. You're learning something new about how to tell a story. But then, I've felt that way about everything I've ever done - television, features or whatever. Directing or writing, it always feels like the first day of school to me.
I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.
Sometimes I sing and dance around the house in my underwear. Doesn't make me Madonna. Never will.
Each of us has a day. . when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.
People like me prove that you can survive without romance, even though you end up a bit unbalanced and you tend to argue with your own reflection.
Doing things the way you see it, going by your own heart and soul, that is pure artistic integrity. Whether the hair is six or sixty inches long, the eyes have make-up or not, the riffs are in 'E' or 'F' sharp, the amps are Marshall or not, all those things don't matter if you are doing it for the right reason, which to me means doing it for yourself!!