Teachers are the most important individuals in our society - nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education.

I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.

I am more of a visual person than a verbal person. For me, I think, the excitement is the fact that I found a way of telling the story as I want to tell it, in a medium that I could master.

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

The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

There are a few critics overseas, and occasionally a critic will write an astute analysis of the movie. There is value in reading critics that actually have something intelligent to say, but the journalistic community lives in a world of sound bites and literary commerce: selling newspapers, selling books, and they do that simply by trashing things. They don't criticize or analyze them. They simply trash them for the sake of a headline, or to shock people to get them to buy whatever it is they're selling.

I’m moving away from the business, from the company, from all this kind of stuff.