The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

No country could claim to be civilized if its legal system weren't available to everyone in it.

Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.

I remembered myself as an unpopular and rather sad kid.

Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies.

What makes architecture extraordinary is that you're looking at the building, but your peripheral vision is also seeing how it fits within a space. And it's seeing more than one part of the building at one time.

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

If I want to make people moved or cry in a film, I figure out what the room looks like, what the people are wearing, what time of day it is, what the light is, how to photograph it, where to put the camera. It involves optics and costume design and set design and architecture.