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I mean, everyone says Citizen Kane. It isn't that great, anyway. And Orson Welles I knew well, of course. He made other incredible films that no one would let him make, which were much better than Citizen Kane, really.

I really like my first movie a lot, 'Kicking and Screaming.' I think it's a - I'm very pleased and proud of that movie, but it wasn't the - it wasn't 'Citizen Kane' right out of the box, you know? It wasn't 'Sex, Lies and Videotape.'

You think of movies like 'Midnight Run' and '48 Hours', those are great movies, especially 'Midnight Run.'

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

I want all of my films to be grounded in reality, and I think 'Midnight Special' is the most grounded film I've ever made, in spite of its genre.

You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane.

Ah, 'The Departed' is really good.

Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself.