Alcohol Decimated The Working Class

Sometimes When You're Heavy Into The Shooting Or Editing Of A Picture, You Get To The Point Where You Don't Know If You Could Ever Do It Again.

A Lot Of What I'm Obsessed With Is The Relationship And The Dynamics Between People And The Family, Particularly Brothers And Their Father.

Young Film Makers Should Learn How To Deal With The Money And Learn How To Deal With The Power Structure. Because It Is Like A Battle.

Orson Welles Was A Force Of Nature, Who Just Came In And Wiped The Slate Clean. And Citizen Kane Is The Greatest Risk-taking Of All Time In Film. I Don’t Think Anything Had Even Seen Anything Quite Like It. The Photography Was Also Unlike Anything We’d Seen. The Odd Coldness Of The Filmmaker Towards The Character Reflects His Own Egomania And Power, And Yet A Powerful Empathy For All Of Them--it’s Very Interesting. It Still Holds Up, And It’s Still Shocking. It Takes Storytelling And Throws It Up In The Air.

I'm Often Asked By Younger Filmmakers, 'why Do I Need To Look At Old Movies?' I've Made A Number Of Pictures In The Last 20 Years And The Response I Have To Give Them Is That I Still Consider Myself A Student. The More Pictures I've Made In 20 Years, The More I Realize I Really Don't Know. And I'm Always Looking For Something Or Someone That I Could Learn From. I Tell The Younger Filmmakers, And The Young Students, That Do It Like Painters Used To Do—that Painters Do—study The Old Masters, Enrich Your Palette, Expand The Canvas. There's Always So Much More To Learn.