If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

You can't stop everything from happening. But we've gotten to a point where we're certainly trying. If a car doesn't have four hundred air bags in it, then it's no good.

Nobody knows diddly. They just think they do. And the people that think they know the most know the least.

Whatever the drama of the story is, you have to be true to it.

In America, instead of making the audience come to the film, the idea seems to be for you to go to the audience. They come up with the demographics for the film and then the film is made and sold strictly to that audience.

I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning something new.