When I'm channel surfing, and 'Silence of the Lambs' comes on, I have trouble turning it off. I wouldn't say that about 'Beautiful Mind.' It's a good movie, but I'm much more in awe of what Jonathan Demme did with 'Silence of the Lambs.'

If it's a good movie, it's a good movie. I don't care about the genres.

I did a good bit of episodic television directing, but directing a movie is so much more complicated.

We never had a giant library or owned a lot of commercial characters the way most studios did. And since we didn't have a lot of internal resources, we had to find ways to be inventive and resourceful, which I think is a healthy way to run a good business.

A movie set or any set is a completely private place and it feels very insulated.

A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.