If the audience is conscious of the music during the screening of a picture (not a musical), it is over-written. Music should augment the story, not take over.

If I were a fatalist, or a mystic, which I decidedly am not, it might be appropriate to say I believe in my lucky star. But I reject 'luck' - I feel every pers…

If we are to have a true and honest culture, we must be aware of the self-appointed tyrant who puts a fence around painting or art or music or literature and s…

If certain events continue, much of America's natural beauty will become nothing more than a memory. The natural beauty of America is a treasure found nowhere …

I find it amoral if you're making a movie where the problem is solved with a guy standing in the back of pickup truck firing a machine at the bad guys. The mor…

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

A good ending is vital to a picture, the single most important element, because it is what the audience takes with them out of the theater.