It's very eclectic, the way one chooses subjects in the movie business, especially in the commercial movie business. You need to develop material yourself or material is presented to you as an assignment to direct.

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

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.

I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel.

So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.

I think that you can't make a movie without a script. But you also can't make movies without actors. You also can't make movies without technicians. And there has to be just one person in charge of everybody, and to me that one person is the director.

One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well