You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.

video games are the comic books of our time... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia".

You live and die two or three times making a movie. First, you write it, and the first pivotal moment comes when you can get it made. The second is in the process of making it, when the movie reveals itself to you, its flaws and its virtues. Then the most unnerving moment is when that movie is then launched into the world. It’s like bringing your kid to the first day at school and somebody points out that it has bowlegs, it is cross-eyed, or it’s gorgeous. You feel very exposed.

For me, lost causes are the only ones that are worth fighting for. The other stuff is not worth fighting for.

Normally a period movie has a lot of problems with the graphics. They look modern made.

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.

As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.