A woman's love is quick to turn into a passion for revenge--an obsession that becomes an endless river of blood, flowing on from generation to generation.
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.
If you're going to succeed, you've got to be like one of those punch-drunk fighters in the old Warner Bros. boxing pictures: too stupid to fall down, you just keep slugging and stay on your feet.
A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols of the freedom of the human spirit that the world has yet known.
I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully.
It's so cool for me to do what I love to do for a living and meet people from all over the world.
You can never have too much, butter.