maturity of what he did in terms of posing a question that he then did not answer. lots of people like to make films and button it up, making sure that you feel a certain way about a certain thing, and spike has always been determined to ask you a question. it forces you into confrontation with your only feeling. >> the '80s was a time when so many new film makers got their start. the '80s was an incubator for new voices, new visionaries, new ideas. >> seize the day. >> cinema, to me, has always been an escape from whatever my life was at the time. >> what i really love in cinema is just to go and be swept away. it's a different world. >> there's something really special about being in a movie. you can sit in the back and feel everybody enjoying it. there's something really great