Producing is great because you learn.

Studios look backward. Filmmakers look forward.

I would much rather see somebody bring something new to a genre than produce something that seems safe.

You can't explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.

I think we live our lives seeking the shortest route, the closest parking space - everything quick, cheap, fast. And it's not better. Two-thirds of the satisfaction of getting something is the process of getting it.

What is fantastic for me is that the Romantic movement comes out as a counter balance to everything that has been accumulating since the Age of Reason. I think the downfall of imagination as a genre or as a perception starts with the Age of Reason, which says everything else that came before us, all those superstitions, all those myths, are childish.

Producing is great because you learn.