Perfume is pretty good because nobody has to hold the product by their face or use it.

You know, I don't think I've ever listened to someone's commentary. Ever.

Take ownership of every decision you make because you will be hold responsible for the film, whether good or bad.

What you learn from that first, and I don't call it 'trial by fire,' I call it 'baptism by fire,' is that you are going to have to take all of the responsibility, because basically when it gets right down to it, you are going to get all of the blame, so you might as well have made all of the decisions that led to people either liking it or disliking it. There's nothing worse than hearing somebody say 'Oh, you made that movie? I thought that movie sucked,' and you have to agree with them, you know?

I don't have the Tom Hanks fans. When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.

It's a bad day when you don't get the work done that you need to get done or you don't get it done to the satisfaction.

I want people to flourish. I want them to walk away from the experience going, "That's what it should be like."