Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.

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.

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.

I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.

Boy, I'd hate to shoot on tape or disc or whatever the hell they're talking about. I love film.

The amazing thing about any movie is not whether it's good, but that it got made at all.

I just tell you what a pleasure it is to get back to the kind of filmmaking I used to be allowed to do.

I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.

Everything that you can touch with pure love belongs to you.

Our culture says that ruthless competition is the key to success. Jesus says that ruthless compassion is the purpose of our journey.

It is not male hatred of women but male fear of women that is the great universal.

By doing nothing we learne to do ill.

I love great music and if it doesn't move me I don't listen to it.

The Government is responsible for what is happening to black people in America.

I get up because there is just so much out there and you just don't know what's going to happen, that's the great thing.

I don't have a lot of time to surf the net and see what everyone's wearing.

If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.