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I’m no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.
Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He’s very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best, and he’s been very successful.
I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I’ll continue to subsidize my own work.
I was never sloppy with other people’s money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.
We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.
It takes no imagination to live within your means.
When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That’s what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was ‘You’re a Big Boy Now.’
They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I’d be sure to have some dough to support my family.
I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.