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Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of...

When you're a houseguest and you leave it's nice to straighten something up...

I guess maybe I try to make movies that are closer to real life than are many...

The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on...

Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.

I mean look I love movies not just the ones I make... In fact I don't...

Even if we die at 100 we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years....

I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make and...

Joe E. Lewis said 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And...

Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to...

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets and of course that will come...

Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part you're...

I get asked 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well what else...

You just never know when you're living in a golden age.