"... if the producer has done his job really well... he really has nothing to do once the camera rolls...
We've tried very hard - and I think we've been successful - not to type ourselves. No one can say we just do monster movies or crime stories or comedies or Westerns. I think that's important.
You have to be strong and fight for what you believe in. And fight for your director's beliefs if you agree with him, and, for the most part, you've hired him because you agree with him. You have to support each other.
[In a 1982 interview with Kenneth Chanko] If I don't think a film has box office potential, I certainly wouldn't consider it. I don't want to make a movie that no one is going to want to see. You don't want to write an article that no one will want to read, do you?"0