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.

My backpack has seven or eight DVDs in it and four or five of them have been there three months and I'm desperate to get to them.

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?

What I keep searching for in movies, more and more, is the right gravity.

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.

The hardest thing, as a producer, is to find a director who does the picture for all the right reasons, and not just because they know it's successful or that they can do a good job, but in their bones, they love that genre.