Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our industry produces and advertises movies.

We did Holy Grail, and I got my name up there as one of the directors. After that, I started moving more and more down the line I wanted to, which was making movies.

My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different.

Sometimes movies gloss over things, and it was important to me that this was realistic.

Special effects movies have taken over the universe. That and scary movies.

I learned a lot about critics, not to really take them too seriously about movies.

I would love to do a big studio movie, just because they're going to put the money into distributing it. A lot of times you do these little movies, you love them and they never get seen by anyone.

Prior to that I produced a couple of TV movies for CBS, but the truth of the matter is that I burned out for a couple of years. I didn't do anything for a while, apart from taking up golf, for which I got a four handicap.

It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. You're either courageous or not. You have to find a way.

Everybody wants blockbusters. I like to see a few pictures now and then that have to do with people and have relationships, and that's what I want to do films about. I don't want to see these sci-fi movies, and I don't want to do one of those. I don't understand it.

I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.

Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies - I have movies I'm developing, and things that I'm interested in.

Movies are very hard to make, to get it all to come together. So many people have their say in what the end product of films are.

They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money.

I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.