 I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time. |
| All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which they operate. My language to each of them has to suit their brain. |
| The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words. |
| When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white. |
| There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it. |
| I don't think good and evil are polarized. |
| The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day. |
| You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't. |
| Kevin and Annette... I wanted them to do it together. They clearly wanted to work with each other. |
| Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets out of proportion and you lose touch completely with reality. |
| Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie. |
| I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies. |
| If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything. |
| I like throwing snowballs at small children. |
| I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance. |
| I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself. |
