The only true immortality is when you don't care if you die. The moment you stop giving credence to gain is when you become invulnerable to pain.

I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.

I am the nice adversary, the guy that's going to ask the tough questions and is not going to be happy with the quick answer.

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.

...to all the monsters in my nursery: May you never leave me alone.

I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen

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.