I've been very lucky in that the studios really respect me and they give me all my creative freedom. But nevertheless, they are inputs, they have opinions. It's the same thing for me as if you're in a shower and you're coming up with a tune, with a melody, but there are 70 people trying to sing their own melody at the same time. So you have to focus and concentrate, and not lose the track of your melody.

I have to confess that I don't read much of what is written about me.

I have this thing that, once I finish a movie, I never see it again.

When you strip hope from people, it leaves a void, and that void needs to be filled. And very likely, that void is going to be filled by an ideology... Hope and faith are so connected. Now, when ideology connects with faith, the ideology becomes an item of faith, not a point of discussion.

The amazing thing is that the more money it takes for a movie to get made, the more you feel like everybody wants you to fail.

I used to be very controlling with visuals and editing, and I would pretty much craft the performances; now I have learned to trust the material and the actors.

The great thing about the moon landing is that my grandmother got the first color TV in order to be able to see the moon landing that was in black and white.