I didn't want to just work within Hollywood when I started a production company. I wanted to be able to collaborate with great artists from all over the world.

When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing

Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.

So to compare your real life, or your partner or lover or whoever to a character in a movie, you're setting yourself up for disappointment. They don't map.

Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

You see a woman on a screen and you reduce her to just a thing, a sex object.

I think our culture is sick and tired of fluffy nonsense and people want something more sincere and heartfelt.