Egotism Is Not A Good Quality. It's

There Is A Certain Kind Of Respect For Authenticity Today That There Wasn't Back In The Days When They Did 'cleopatra,' Where Everything Looked Like A Giant Motel. People Want To Have It Be Authentic In The Look, And Authentic In The Way People Behave.

Egotism Is Not A Good Quality. It's Not Something To Be Admired Or Even Tolerated. It Wouldn't Be Tolerated In A Field Commander And It Shouldn't Be Tolerated In A Movie Director.

To Be A Good Executive You Have To Be Strong, And You Have To Have A Simple Attribute That People Have Forgotten About - Courage.

You Know, I Find It Very Strange When Movies That I Made That Were Just Excoriated - I Mean That I Was Just Vilified For - Are Now Looked At As Classics.

A Lot Of Directors Don't Know What They Want To Do. Every Director I've Seen That Was A Good Director That I've Admired Knew Exactly What He Wanted To Do. They Didn't Sit There And Think About It.