I like all my work equally. I look at the projects as children. I look at the experience more than the end result.

As a film director and as film actors, you get used to a certain rhythm that's slow. But with TV, it's hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry. It's a different pace. So, it's about adjusting to the pace. It's not meant for everybody.

I was always intrigued with European cinema, and hated most American cinema. I didn't like the one, two, three - boom! style, with a neat and tidy ending. That was never my scene.

I think people in the future will come up to me and say, "Everything that you are and everything that you have is because of that butler [film]." Of course, that's Oprah's line from the movie, but I think it will resonate with my legacy with the movie.

Trust is hard to get from actors, and for me to give to actors.

I've dodged all sorts of bullets in Hollywood to get my movies made. I'm tough.

I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff.