Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.

I think for me, the showdown was when my granddaughter's class asked me to come and show the film and I was embarrassed to show the normal version, ... So I cobbled together a version of the whole movie, the whole novel, and I remember looking at it and wondering, 'Why did I ever cut this down?'

When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'

The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.