You don't have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.

I've been failing for, like, ten or eleven years. When it turns, it'll turn. Right now I'm just trying to squeeze through a very tight financial period, get the movie out, and put my things in order.

Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.

I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before?

If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business.

Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He's very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best, and he's been very successful.