Life's better when it's fun. Boy, that's deep, isn't it?

I wanted very much to do Traffic and at one point it looked like I was going to work on it. And then, of course, Catherine Zeta-Jones had her relationship with Michael Douglas and it suddenly didn't happen.

If it's fifty years from now and it still has the same value, that's a movie.

There's actually a big difference between story and character. A great story doesn't make a great movie. A great script, which defines its moments and characters can become a great movie. You can make a movie that makes a lot of money and it may or may not have great story or great characters.

When I see my children, and when I see the people who value me, I know how lucky I am.

You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. You can just try to be true to yourself.

I'm proud of all the movies I've made. They're not sequels, they're not franchises. And the reason I pick my films carefully is that I don't want to spit on my life. I like to think of myself as more than that.