You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.

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.

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

I believe that filmmaking - as, probably, is everything - is a game you should play with all your cards, and all your dice, and whatever else you've got. So, each time I make a movie, I give it everything I have. I think everyone should, and I think everyone should do everything they do that way.

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

A lot of the young people make beautiful films or big films or are able to finance them, but they can't get anyone to distribute them, they can't get anyone to see them, so they go to these thousands of film festivals. So I still believe that even though a young kid might be able to make a masterpiece or something that changes the direction of cinema, the issue of how to get it to people is still not solved.

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