Time is the lens through which dreams are captured.

I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school.

Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.

They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.

I like simplicity; I don't need luxury.

I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!

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.