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.

The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director.

You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me.

Movies are about escape.

I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.

Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.

But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.

When I was old enough to go to movies alone, I got to see 'Frankenstein' and 'Dracula' on the big screen. I just fell in love with them.

I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.

I worked so hard for so long - I did a lot of movies. I also worked a lot when my kids were smaller, before they were in school.