My father told me very early on that it was a sin to worry too much.

That's like asking you to pick your favorite child... I do however, think Bird on a Wire was one of my finest works. Oscar caliber.

You ask anybody what their number one fear is, and it's public humiliation. Multiply that on a global scale, and that's what I've been through.

Women in my family are the center of things. All good things emanate from them. The guys usually mess up.

There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function without a belief in a deity.

There are certain things that I will do viscerally to affect people emotionally, with speed changes and sound, and various other things. Sure there are links; the same kind of sensibilities went into it and I worked on writing that script as well so there was an emphasis on a minimalisation of dialogue as far as possible, to focus on the visual and to put it in another language, of course.

I rarely lose my temper anymore.