My wife is the fact-checker, I'm in the story telling business.

I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.

Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.

I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraway place.

My wife is the fact-checker, I'm in the story telling business.

There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.

All good, clean stories are melodrama, it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.