If you want your freedom, you have to be willing to work hard to exercise it.

There are many directors in the middle range who've made mostly successful pictures, and then there are a few great directors who've had some successes and some failures. I suppose my life would be smoother if I wasn't almost totally enamored of the latter category.

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

You can't say, "I'm gonna make a hit movie." You're as dead as you could be.

Everyone pretty much acknowledges that he's the man, and I still feel that underrates him.

OK, the director makes the movie. But some movies can't get made without someone like me in them.

I love working with women directors. They don't mind making you cute.