I feel that your ambitions should always exceed the budget. That no matter what budget you're doing, you should be dreaming bigger than the budget you have, and then it's a matter of reigning it in to the reality. You try to make things count.

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

I have "fat-guy syndrome." If they give me $50 million to make a movie, I'll try to make it look like it cost a hundred. If they give me $60 million, I'll try to make it look like it cost $120.

Somebody said to me, in a very well-meaning way, at a screening, "We love the movie but it's too violent. If you tone down the violence you could reach a great audience of kids.".

When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion are the only means to get to it.

I think Hollywood has a habit of developing 100 times more than they actually shoot.

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