People think you're like The Godfather, waiting for scripts to come in. But, you're hustling, you're desperate, you're panicked and you're horrified. The movie you think you're going to do next, you don't do. The movie you think you're never going to do, you make.

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

When you work with a great director, you can have a great partnership.

I think that is the ultimate cowardice, when someone makes your choices for you in an institutional way. And you just say, "Well, I have no other option."

What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.

If you're doing a big spectacle film, you've got to be mindful of large masses. Even then, you've got to be responsible only to your storytelling.

When you shoot in America, you have huge beams of sunlight in the windows, very vivid sunlight - it's faster in a way.