I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.

Most people, 95% of people, are good people. Its the 5% who get seduced by power.

The arc of the celebrity phenomenon ultimately is: everything turns to dust and everything does go away.

Narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verité is film in its purest form. You're taking random images and creating meaning out of random images, telling a story, getting meaning, capturing something that's real, that's really happening, and render this celluloid sculpture of this real thing. That's what really separates the power of doc filmmaking from fiction.

I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you're creating something.

Obviously you have a responsibility - one would like to think there is such a thing as ethics in filmmaking.

Im fascinated by failure, and Im fascinated by finality. Shakespeares historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful.