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I would love for film to go back to those days where you had to be able to do everything just to get by.

I want to make films that people will say, 'That movie rocked!'

I've never fallen into what I consider to be a trap of trying to figure out something analytically that could be a very popular film. I would hope my enthusiasm could match up with something with that potential.

The designs were based on quite a lot of research of what a movie musical is, filtered through the eyes of today. If we'd gone strictly with the '20s, the movement would have been impaired.

Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.

More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.

I realized I probably wouldn't make another film that cuts through commercial and creative things like 'Godfather' or 'Apocalypse.'

It's a harder time to make original, less conventional movies. But God, we need them!

I'm sure I can make a movie that doesn't feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that's my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.