As much as I love Star Wars (1977) and as much as it`s really revolutionized the imaging business, it went off the rails in the sense that science fiction, historically, was a science fiction of ideas. It was thematic fiction. It stopped being that and be...
So, Spider-Man was obviously good casting for him (Sam Raimi). I mean, he was good casting to do Spider-Man. Would I have done it differently? Yeah, absolutely. It would`ve been a very different film, but that`s the film you`ve never seen. I`ve seen it. -...
It just never really gelled and then the September 11th attacks happened and the idea of a domestic comedy adventure film about an anti-terrorism unit just didn`t seem all that funny to me anymore. - [about his reason to decline True Lies 2]
A director`s job is to make something happen and it doesn`t happen by itself. So you wheedle, you cajole, you flatter people, you tell them what needs to be done. And if you don`t bring a passion and an intensity to it, you shouldn`t be doing it.
That was the purest experience, even though it was the cheapest one and the cheesiest looking one. - [about `The Terminator` (1984)]
