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I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaking to ask me to make the new Superman.

When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work.

Superman was never previewed because the producers didn't trust Warners with the film.

It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don't we just re-release this thing?

It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important.

It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz.

If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE most important person is the director. The director says where the camera goes.

I prefer film to the stage. I always like the rehearsal better than I like performing.

If you're doing a drama that has some comedic elements you can't forget that it's primarily a very serious film that has some light relief.

You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition.

Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously.

Obviously in Art of Noise, I'm just part of the group, and when I do film scores, it's always in collaboration with the director and other people involved.

Kubrick never explained the ending to us, or what his intentions were. He didn't intend for it to be a predictable film.

For me the most moving moment came when I first started working on 2001. I was already in awe of him, and he had very much already become Stanley Kubrick by the time the film started.

Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles.

In the '80s, I can't say that Amy and I were aware of an independent film community. We could only get a certain amount of money for our pictures, which made them low budget movies, but they were distributed through studios.

I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first.

Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.

We're making a commercial Hindi film catering to all types of audiences.

The film is a romance with songs and dances, aimed at a family audience.