It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

I was not out to paint beautiful pictures even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.

Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.

The technology is really where all of the changes have taken place but the fundamentals of a good story being the basis of every good picture and really the only basis still remains the rule more so today I think because we've unfortunately weaned an audience from birth to kind of mindless movies.

There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.

What's happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it it can be put on the screen.

I go and see anything that's visually new any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different but someone using it will.

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

Every soldier must know before he goes into battle how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.