It's difficult to keep anything fresh for an audience these days. With technology being what it is people seem to know everything there is to know about a film before you've even made it.

The structural notions to me always have to be worked out very carefully in the script stage. Whatever a particular structure is. Whether it's chronological or non-chronological. To me that's always about what point of view are we trying to address in the film?

I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.

I never meet anybody who actually likes the format, and it’s always a source of great concern to me when you’re charging a higher price for something that nobody seems to really say they have any great love for.

I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.

The problem with big films is they snowball very rapidly and you can never pull back. It's a pipeline that needs to be fed.

If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.