When a movie is about to come out on its initial debut, there are a lot of people involved - the financiers, the studio and the producers and also, many times, the foreign distributors. So it is a time of tremendous pressure and uncertainty.

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

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 don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you can do with illusions and working within the confines of the studio.

Wine is so much more than a beverage. It's a romance, a story, a drama-all of those things that are basically putting on a show.

Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.