What naturally stops you making the film is there is no more money in the budget. That's really what it is. If you had an unlimited budget, if you were a billionaire and you financed your own movies, then you can either date, because you can sit in an editing room for six years, like Howard Hughes, and never finish anything.

'Drive' came to me because the casting director knew my manager and called and said, 'You've always talked to me about Albert wanting to play the heavy. I think he should read this.' My ears just perked up.

In my screenplays - from the very beginning I've always used tape. I talk my screenplays. And then have somebody transcribe them.

There's nothing funny about flying to Houston.

Film is the cheapest part of the movie making process. The expense is the 100-man crew and the financing and everything.

I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It's not like a politician who knows who is in the Iowa caucus.

I've seen the future! It's a bald-headed man from New York!