One of the things that's driving films in a particular direction is that the after market value of them is dropping really fast and in many segments of it, not just DVDs. Pay television is dropping.

If a character dies, you should feel that. If a character accomplishes something, you should feel that. That's where you try to find that balance. It's impossible to articulate, as you go through it. You just have to recognize it.

I think that running a studio gave me an appetite for making a lot of different kinds of movies and it's given me the opportunity to do that.

As a filmmaker you have to keep asking yourself the question are we really going to impress them [audience] either by the wow factor, the intelligence factor, the I didn't see that coming factor?

I don't like the term 'ensemble.' It's bland to me.

Everybody has a background. Everybody has a past. Not everybody's the same person all the way through.

I mean, I'm not a contrarian.