I study history in order to give an interpretation.
Hell is the impossibility of reason.
I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.
I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.
There's an electrical thing about movies.
Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental fie...
Most American view World War II nostalgically as the good war, in which the United States and its allies triumphed over German Nazism, Italian fascism, and Japanese militarism. The rest of the world r...
I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exi...
Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.
I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.
I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the...