Any legend, any creature, any symbol we ever stumble on, already exists in a vast cosmic reservoir where archetypes wait. Shapes looming outside our Platonic cave. We naturally believe ourselves clever and wise, so advanced, and those who came before us so naïve and simple...when all we truly do is echo the order of the universe, as it guides us.

Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -

I think when you get all the money and all the freedom, rarely do you get a good movie out of it or a movie that you're proud of.

You can always go back to not making any money, and then you get the freedom. And I'm going to continue doing it, because it really is a fantastic sense of liberation.

With every movie I produce, I learn something. I watch the directors. It's like the relationship you have with your children. I'm there to learn from my daughters. They are the perfect spirits.

If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.

My life is a suitcase. I am the traveling Mexican.