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There are times when you're working with film people when you have to say, 'If the camera were on you, what you're doing would be perfect'.

Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.

I stumbled into this business, I didn't train for it. I yelled 'Action!' on my first two movies before the camera was turned on.

It's taken me 15 years to step behind a camera and make something everyone agrees looks like a movie.

I think films have to reach people and really grab them. That's what I hope to do when I make a film - to get under your skin and really make you think about something, and have a transporting time that takes you somewhere.

Life came in and put me in front of the camera before I could really make a decision, but I think I probably would have gravitated to film.

If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.

I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it.

Now everybody's got a video camera, so go make videos with your friends or see if you can get a part in a film school thing that's being done.