Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!

Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.

I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.

Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!

Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.

You have more and more people coming into the tent with the creative guys [on Hollywood films]. You have marketing and concept testers, advertising people. What you find gets the high numbers is easily appealing subjects: a baby, a big broad joke, a high concept. Everything is tested. The effect is to lessen the gamble, but in fact you destroy a writer's confidence and creativity once so many people are invited into the tent.

Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie.