When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have.

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

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

I like simplicity; I don't need luxury.

The most adventurous thing I've done is learn how to fly a helicopter in the Philippines. One night we landed on a beach and slept on it.

Sound is your friend because sound is much cheaper than picture, but it has equal effect on the audience - in some ways, perhaps more effect because it does it in a very indirect way.

I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me.