Directing Is Too Hard, It Takes Too

I Think People Only Have So Much Interest In Anybody, And If You Barrage Them In Between The Times You Have Something To Offer Them You Become A Personality Rather Than An Actor - Much More Short-lived. I Only Work Once A Year. And That's Enough.

I Don't Do Stunts - I Do Running, Jumping And Falling Down. After 25 Years I Know Exactly What I'm Doing.

With The Cgi, Suddenly There's A Thousand Enemies Instead Of Six - The Army Goes Off Into The Horizon. You Don't Need That. The Audience Loses Its Relationship With The Threat On The Screen. That's Something That's Consistently Happening And It Makes These Movies Like Video Games And That's A Soulless Enterprise. It's All Kinetics Without Emotion.

I Think You Have To Be Very Careful With Effects That They Don't Overpower The Story With The Visual Element.

Acting Was A Way Out At First. A Way Out Of Not Knowing What To Do, A Way Of Focusing Ambitions. And The Ambition Wasn't For Fame. The Ambition Was To Do An Interesting Job.