I have created the life that I live... therefore I can create the life that I want.

Every film takes on its own life. I find it very interesting to show an audience some part of history that maybe they don't know.

On an animated movie, I'm learning as I go. There are so many details in animation. Doing the voices was the easy-part. Doing live-action, you have to be on the set, every day.

Producing, for me anyway, it's coming up with material. It's sitting down with you know the likes of Martin Scorsese, Johnny Depp, Michael Mann and talking about a movie and really creating something from nothing.

I love the gangster genre, but how many gangster movies are there? If I get a good gangster movie script, I'll do it.

I don't like making a film and having the actors in character too much in magazines and on the net and everything else. Because you want to keep something back.

I'm really a one-man band.