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With a bad script and even the best cast, the most you can hope for is to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse.

The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.

Alfred Hitchcock had to find ways to create tension without showing it, but now with computer-generated effects you can show anything.

The tension I feel is the moment they say, 'Action!' Movies are like lightning in a bottle, and you always want to find when you possibly can catch a surprising moment.

The gospel may not make a sow's ear into a silk purse, but it will make everybody better if they live it. I've tried it. It stands the test.

When you come to do the film, it is not the time to wonder why you do it. It's just how to do it.

Sometimes Hollywood manages to knock a movie in its teeth so hard that it never manages to get back up.

If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think finally, in a film, it is how the balance is and the feelings are. But I think there has to be those contrasts and strong things within a film for the total experience.

People have no idea how physically tough doing a film is.

I think I'll get a little more interesting small parts and see if I can really... I guess you don't have to have the pressure on you compared to when you're a leading man in a film.