A man's legacy is determined by how the story ends.

At first glance, you read something on the page and it can seem one way, and you can have your decisions before you wind up on set about what that set is supposed to mean, but until you're actually there doing them, there's really no way to understand it.

It's very hard to impose your beliefs or a specific message about any given movie. I think that audiences always extract what they want from a film even if something isn't overtly political. They may or may not get it, and it's hard to control that.

I will fly around the world doing good for the environment.

If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.

You learn after you've been in the business for a while that it's not getting your face recognized that's the payoff. It's having your film remembered.

You never know as a director what other directors do. Because you don't get to see what they do.