I think I've made some pretty decent films in the '80s and '90s.

The first thing I can really tell you is I really love the work.

I have gotten to a point in my life where I don't want to have dinner with someone I don't like.

But I really am very active in the choice of the line producer with the producer of record and the distributing company, because I've had some terrible, terrible experiences with some line producers, particularly in cable.

There are two things I will never do in my life. I will never climb Mount Everest, and I will never work with Val Kilmer again. There isn't enough money in the world.

The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie.

I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical standpoint, with floppy disks and the ability to put all of the film onto a disk, more people have access to the movie.