The object is to try to get the (movie) system to work for you, instead of against you. And the only way you can do it is through success, I'm afraid.

A film is sort of binary - it either works or it doesn't work. It has nothing to do with how good a job you do. If you bring it up to an adequate level where the audience goes with the movie, then it works, that is all.

For the third trilogy, I don't know if I will still be alive when it comes the time to make them.

If you can tune into the fantasy life of an 11-year-old girl, you can make a fortune in this business.

Sound is 50 percent of the movie going experience, and I've always believed audiences are moved and excited by what they hear in my movies at least as much as by what they see.

I would like to see our society mature, and become more rational and more knowledge-based, less emotion-based.

I'd be the first person to say I can't write dialogue. My dialogue is very utilitarian and is designed to move things forward. I'm not Shakespeare. It's not designed to be poetic.