If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.

I don't ever see movies by myself. I always see them with other people because I want to know what works. I want to know where they laugh. I want to know where they don't laugh. I want to know what they think about it afterwards because in the end that's what the art that I'm working with is.

I've had much more down in my life than I've had up. And much more struggle. First of all, when I went into the film school everybody said, "What are you doing? This is a complete dead-end for a career."

Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.

I live a reasonably simple life, off the beaten track.

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

The script is what you`ve dreamed up - this is what it should be. The film is what you end up with.