"Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are."

"Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable."

"Let's put it this way: art house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in what audiences want to see. And they have to be aware of that and be realistic. It's as simple as that."

"I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard."

"You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates."

"There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance."