I respect the rules of TV, the rules of keeping things commercial and interesting and pop-y and fun.

What I do like is hiking. And that's what filmmaking is. It's a hike. It's challenging and exhausting, and you don't know what the terrain is going to be or necessarily even which direction you're going in... but it sure is beautiful.

Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.

It's about women. It's about power and it's about women and you just hate those two words in the same sentence, don't you?

Anything can be good. Even Last Action Hero could've been good. There's an idea somewhere in almost any movie : if you can find something that you love, then you can do it. If you can't, it doesn't matter how skilful you are.

I did my English A level in England, and we studied Shakespeare. I had great, great high school teachers, and we parsed the text within an inch of its life.

The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear.