Reality is for people that lack imagination.

We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.

The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is hopeless.

No matter how many weapons you have, no matter how great your technology might be, the world cannot live without love.

You never know how a film will play, whether it will be successful or not, or whether it will touch the audience. I always said to myself that whatever happens, big audience or small, that I would not let the results have an impact on my way of working. But it would be a bit silly for me to change my methods when I have a big success. That means my methods work well.

I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.

Nobody has the right to sit in judgment and decide what's good or bad for you.