I'm hoping one day I can make one really good film.

I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.

This is how good movies get made and always have: from the gut instinct of the financiers, not just by committee and research.

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

In the moment of making films, I want to share my observations of life, not of other films.

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

I could never be a part of an adaptation of a film where there's pressure to not disappoint the immense fan base. In those cases, they often wind up with filmed books on tape, quite uncinematic. Having said that, I'd say all the adaptations I've done are quite faithful to the original... You have to pick and choose which storylines and plot threads, because you don't have the time to kill in the film as they have in novels. All those pages with detours and plots and different storylines. But films add a lot, and you gotta keep it moving.