I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age!

I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability.

We mystify the art of moviemaking, but it's not amystical science. You take a good screenplay, put a group togetherand you hammer it out.

You don't really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I've been very fortunate, and I think water seeks its own level. You do gravitate towards things that you would get off on.

Slow motion is so visually cinematic; when you create that, you create it for your audience, you let them have the feeling of what it must be like to be there. And in a movie, you can't forget the audience.

In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it's all up to you.

It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.