The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film - whether it's history, psychology, economics, or architecture - so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn't going to help you unless you have something to say.

You need peers; you need people who are at the same level you are. You never know in life when you're going to need help, and you never know who you're going to need it from.

Time is more important to me than money.

They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes

Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.

That had always been my purpose: to get people back in touch with what makes us so valuable as a human race.

I like to say that films are never finished, they're only abandoned.