As The Years Go By And I

I Want Studios To Be Financing Director-driven, Auteurist Cinema, As They Did In The '70s. I Think It's Starting To Happen Now. Plus, Because Of How Our World Has Changed Politically, I Think Audiences Are Demanding More Realism. We Need To Have More Stuff In Our Culture About What Is Really Going On Right Now.

I Spend A Long Time Casting, But Once I've Cast A Film There's A Reason Why I Selected Those People. So I'm Hands-on In Selecting The Cast, Hands-off To See What They Do With Their Characters, And Hands-on Again To Offer Suggestions.

I Like Action Films, Not Exclusively, But I Like Samurai Films. I Like Westerns. Not So Much War Pictures, But A Few. I Like Kinetic Cinema.

Joe E. Lewis Said, 'money Doesn't Buy Happiness But It Calms The Nerves.' And That Is How I Feel About A Film Being Well-received.

I Always Wanted 'sideways' To Be Like A Great 1960s Italian Film.