There is no such thing as a 'real' representation of 'reality. ' Except, perhaps, in algebraic formulae.
I was a disinterested student.
People will say, 'There are a million ways to shoot a scene,' but I don't think so. I think there are two, maybe. And the other one is wrong.
Directing ain't about drawing a neat little picture and showing it to the cameraman. I didn't want to go to film school. I didn't know what the point was. The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two.
You have a responsibility for the way you make the audience feel, and I want them to feel uncomfortable.
I don't know how much movies should entertain. To me I'm always interested in movies that scar. The thing I love about JAWS is that I've never gone swimming in the ocean again.
I don't think that digital technology will ever take away the humanity of storytelling, because storytelling is entirely, in and of itself, a wholly human concern.
We were always around my dad, so he wasn't absentee at all. I don't think it was normal, but it was exciting. You always had lots of creative people around, and my parents took us everywhere.
Love so joyfully and freely given can never be taken away. It is never truly gone.
The only praise I would like and treasure is the promotion of the activities to which my life is dedicated.
Why is it that the uneducated minds always criticize the brilliant minds?