Death is what makes life an event.

Collaboration is like the sex of creativity.

All of a sudden, there are great Japanese films, or great Italian films, or great Australian films. It's usually because there are a number of people that cross-pollinated each other.

So much of the art of film is to do less. To aspire to do less.

'Godfather' was very classical, the way it was shot, the style, the whole driving force of it was more classical, almost Shakespearean.

The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It's a high-wire act. That excites me.

If the movie works, nobody notices the mistakes... If the movie doesn't work, the only thing people notice are mistakes.