Trust yourself that you can do it and get it

You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.

When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.

I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: "Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar."

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

In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.

Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.