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If I die on a film set when I'm 80, I'll be happy with that.

Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.

If you look at Buster Keaton or Douglas Fairbanks movies, what still amazes you today is their physical ability. The only special effects that never grow old are what you can do with the human body.

All of the movies that last, that you return to, the movies that struck you as a kid and continue to open up to you 10 years later and 10 years after that - those are the movies I want to make. Those things are eternal.

Some films change your life a little.

I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.

You know you've been around when they start to remake your own movies when you're still alive.

Film is forever.

I love that you can watch a film and 10 years later still be affected.