I've never much been interested in doing films that no one gets to see.

Now that I can edit the whole thing on AVID and edit the whole thing on tape, maybe I will do the next digitally, because maybe the quality will become less obvious between tape and film.

For behaviorist films, that's been much more useful - the change of technology - but for my kind of films, doing them on film is much better, because it's more beautiful.

He wasn't, but producers are by definition annoying because they have a different agenda from you. They're trying to stop you spending money and you're trying to not spend money, but at the same time we're great artists.

I've never much been interested in doing films that no one gets to see.

Anyway, that was the germ of the idea and of course... you know this was early days of sociology and whatever, especially on television.

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.

Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited.

Your great country is wonderful at stealing pieces of history and using it for its own purposes, so there didn't seem to be anything particularly unusual about it but the English were incredibly exercised about it.

So I do tend to do documentaries where I can move in and out of them.

When I joined Granada - which, you don't want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot place to be, it was my good fortune to be there at that time - the BBC was firmly asleep.

One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do.

It's still the same job, the same anxieties, but it did feel a lot different, that kind of budget, that schedule, and frankly, the slowness of it all, and also having a lot of other units working.

It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis.

I think in terms of the work we're doing now a lot of the UI cleanup... I see it getting much prettier.

Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.

My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.

Wherever I've been, and I've been to over 20, maybe 25, countries in Africa, I've noticed how their backbone is broken. They don't have any confidence in themselves. They always think a white man will solve their problems from outside for them.

Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there even on my team. Its really cool youll see so many different things.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

If you're working with someone who you get on with and you're supposed to hate them on the screen, then you get this playful challenge thing where you're trying to one-up each other and that's really interesting. Sometimes it can become like tennis. The harder you hit the ball back, then the harder the hit it back to you.

I remember doing the sex scene in Red Rock West. I had to kiss Nic Cage and then look like I was going down on him. And he couldn't do anything - he just had to lie there.

Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.

A great marriage isn’t something that just happens; it’s something that must be created.

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't true.

Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.

I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.

I hate it when you are watching a movie where the characters are on the news, and for some reason they shoot it with a 35mm camera or a 4K camera, and they just put it on the TV as if that's the way it would look - it always takes me out of it by putting a filter on certain things. If it's too high quality, you're never gonna buy it.

All of us want to be Superman when we grow up, fighting for truth and justice. That's part of what drives me as a writer.

It was always one of my favorite things, the action figures, the video games, when I was with WWE, even though I'm not a gamer. I would literally go out and buy the games just so I could play myself.

You have to understand that women in the south, women of southern blood, just don't partake in scandalous adventures and when we do, it's in a discreet manner. We have reputations to consider, after all.

I think I hid my singing talent from a lot of my friends at school because I didn't want to alienate anyone. If everyone was singing along in the car to a Madonna song, I didn't join in because when we're younger we're afraid of sticking out or showing off, when in fact we should own those things that make us really unique.

Listen to advice, but follow your heart.

The NFL, and I've played a lot of years for them, and they have a lot of restrictions on their players, they have restrictions on their licensees, they have restrictions on everything.

Oh my God, I could watch Jennifer Coolidge for hours.

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.