These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.

It always happens at the end that you're always under the gun because of various schedules and all that.

Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.

I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.

We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.

These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.

When I move from being a cameraman to being a director I looked at a lot of other cameramen who tried to make the move. And in each case they moved up their camera operator to be the DP, which really meant they didn't want to give up being the DP, and really wanted to do both. And my feeling was if I was going to succeed as a director, I had to just be a director and give up the safety net of being a cameraman.