"He could have known this little girl when she was just a kid. Had an affair with her when she was eleven. … He hasn’t…"

"It was insane, I wish I had filmed it. It was like bringing an audience to the Mona Lisa and asking, 'Do you know why…"

"The Johnson film wasn't terrible. I just didn't agree with the politics. I'm not a fan of big government and propagan…"

"We say, 'We think you are a talented, functioning person, and we are hiring you because of your abilities, and whatev…"

"One of the fatal mistakes that almost every science-fiction film makes is that they spend so much time on the setting…"

"Don't avoid the cliches — they are cliches because they work!"

"People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbaria…"

"Sound is half the experience of seeing a film. That's why I have been bothered by the poor sound re-production in man…"

"Everybody has the choice of being a hero or not being a hero every day of their lives … and you can either help someb…"

"My primary concept in approaching the production of THX 1138 was to make a kind of theater verité film of the future …"