Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.

I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as to who we’re dealing with, and that we’re not making a picture for Harvard Law School, we’re making a picture for middle-class people, the people that you see on the subway, or the people that you see in a restaurant. Just normal people.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.

I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all.

Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.