I've never much been interested in doing films that no one gets to see.

Now that I can edit the whole thing on AVID and edit the whole thing on tape, maybe I will do the next digitally, because maybe the quality will become less obvious between tape and film.

So I do tend to do documentaries where I can move in and out of them.

Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited.

I'd love to direct commercials on Caribbean beacheswith luscious women rubbing on suntan lotion, but all I get arethese documentary-type things.

I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it was air, land, or sea.

I had wanted to make a film about World War II for some time, but I didn't really want to do something that was set in the trenches, so to speak.

Fear will hunt you down, right to the very depth of your soul".

Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause.

The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence.

We can sit and worry about what's going to happen to us two weeks from now. I'd rather focus on the amazing things happening right in front of us.

Had Shakespeare listened to the news of Duncans death in a tavern or heard the knocking on his own bedroom door after he had finished the writing of Macbeth?

Time can turn a scab into a beauty mark.

When someone starts talking to me about the truth, what I hear is what they're telling me about themselves.

What is now in the past was once in the future

Patience in the mind and dynamism in action is the right formula.

The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.