There Is No Re-inventing The Wheel.

The Advice You Give To Young Directors For Sure Is To Go Out And Become Some Version Of A Successful Movie Actor. Do That First And Say Yes To People Like Terrence Malick And Clint Eastwood And Woody Allen When They Come And Offer You Movies. It's A Great Front Row Seat To Filmmaking.

There Is No Shame In My Saying That We All Want To Be Loved.

Yeah, I Had Actually Tried To Stop Acting Before I Made Dead Man Walking.

My Greatest Interest In It Was Certainly Not To Avoid Those Things That Were Going To Be Controversial About The Family But The Interest I Had In The Story Was Predominantly What He Was Pursuing And Not As Much What He Was Fleeing.

On A Movie, It's Always Better To Stay Invisible As Much As You Can To Keep Things Calm. I Like To Whisper To My Cameraman, I Like To Whisper To My Actors, And Whoever Else I've Gotten To Whisper To.