You can't please everyone... If you make a good movie, that's all that matters.
You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.
What I learned very quickly is that if you get it right in the first two or three takes, it's not going to get that much better.
I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on.
I will never sign anything which makes me have to do more than one film.
Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the different histrionics, and the mystique that they carry.