I guess we've had a very close relationship because I don't pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know a bit about theatre but he does he respected that and so we really just had a collaboration which went completely like this.

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

The cinema began with a passionate physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it manipulated it and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.

Everybody has something that chews them up and for me that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely even when you are.

One of my great all-time loves in cinema and I've seen it three times is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.

Entertainment came out of this thing called a television and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

Cinema is entertainment and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.

Cinema is visually powerful it is a complete experience reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.

I turn a lot of stuff down - big big movies the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.