And I kind of feel that I have a responsibility to the people that invest their time and money with me to show up on the set every day and do the best of which I am capable.

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

If you don't cast well, you can be in real trouble.

I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work.

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.

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