I loathed school. I don't have an academic mind, and besides I was so bored by my teachers! How teachers can take a child's inventiveness and say yes, yes, in that pontifical way of theirs, and smother everything!

I've never known what I've wanted to do. I've never planned anything in my life.

I'm not accustomed to doing films without seeing the script. There are certain people that are auteurs, and you accept them regardless of whether you see a script or not. But Spielberg is not an auteur.

It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor.

On the other hand, you get other films that are spread over a much longer period of time and it's entirely exhausting. But there's always light at the end of the tunnel with a film.

I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.

We're all far too afraid of being so arrogant to say "Either you can or you can't."