Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.

Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.

Filmmaking is a difficult process. There are the logistics of making a film. You have to do your part, and then change the entire thing around to do someone else's part. A lot of the magic is lost, in between that, and you have to figure out how to get it back.

Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.

You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.

If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that I make and the more interest that I'm allowed to cover, the better for me and the better, hopefully, for the people who like to watch me.

It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.