The Very Earliest People Who Made Film

I Know That If A Film Is Ready To Emerge Out Of What I Write, I'll Be Able To Go Off And Make It Without Asking Anyone's Permission.

Sound Is Your Friend Because Sound Is Much Cheaper Than Picture, But It Has Equal Effect On The Audience - In Some Ways, Perhaps More Effect Because It Does It In A Very Indirect Way.

To Make Great Movies, There Is An Element Of Risk. You Have To Say, 'well, I Am Going To Make This Film, And It Is Not Really A Sure Thing.'

In America, Even The Critics - Which Is A Pity - Tend To Genre-ize Things. They Have A Hard Time When Genres Get Mixed. They Want To Categorize Things. That's Why I Love Wes Anderson's Films And The Coen Brothers, Because You Don't Know What You're Going To Get, And Very Often You Get Something That You Don't Expect And That's Just What A Genre's Not Supposed To Do.

Work On Nothing Less Than Epic Scale