You just have to do your art. Nothing can stop you.

It's the most unrealistic thing you can do to shoot a close-up, and it's the most unrealistic place you can be as a performer. And yet actors grouse about having to do visual effect shots, but they love doing close-ups.

I can't see any reason why a dramatic story can't be in 3-D. I think 'Lawrence of Arabia' would have been fabulous in 3-D.

I have no complaints about 'The Walk.' I made it, and I'm very happy with what happens.

Most actors that I work with are wonderful. Jodie Foster or Tom Hanks will make anything work.

The thing that makes love stories work, in my opinion, in movies and novels and country & western songs, is the feeling of longing.

'I Wanna Hold Your Hand' and 'Used Cars' were absolute failures at the box office. Complete disasters. I learned some sad news: it's not an automatic thing that, if you make a good movie, everyone wants to see it.

I don't know any filmmaker who can deconstruct their own work.

Working with actors who are directors is magnificent. Because they understand the art form intimately, and they know exactly how everything works.

I grew up on Chicago's South Side in a working-poor family, so I watched everything on television. It was like my window on the world. But we also went to the movies pretty regularly - mostly on Tuesdays, because that was Ladies Night, and my mom could get in for free.