I've always approached screenplays and so forth with, "How would it really happen?" Not "What's the movie version?" but "What's the real-life version?" Then I just follow my nose.

I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.

A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.

As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films.

I make comedies and I always try... I don't try but I allow to have at least 5% of the jokes or have some jokes that I know will be understood by only about 5% of the audience. It's that guy in the corner who gets it and laughs. But he has to have his jokes too. That's part of my audience. Part of my audience is the people who will only get certain things.

Even if we die at 100, we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.

I like voice-over in films, and most of my films have been voice-over films.