I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films.

I don't think I ever take huge risks, though I'm not scared of doing so.

You can be as you choose to be. It's an act of discipline sometimes, but it can be done.

I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.

You're this rat in the American maze, working your way towards the cheese, which is a job.

One person doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn't do well.

Broken people say awful things and do incredibly absurd things.