I get off on the interaction with people, and I love the chess of a movie and particularly - not only in preproduction or in production or postproduction - the behavioral chess. That is, learning and being humbled by and also teaching certain people certain things. I love that. As a producer, you have an opportunity to see the whole and bring people together.

My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me.

Every journey starts with fear.

I like the conscious manipulation that a great director can have. When you're both complicit in the manipulation of an emotion.

I walk around thinking job to job, trying to not have regrets.

The truth is most of the films that make a lot of money no one remembers, and I'm not interested in making films that no one remembers.

I'm open to whatever people want to call me.