You've got to play what people think you are, rather than what you are. You have to have a sense of what you are as you're playing what people think you are.

It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing.

It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days.

You've got to play what people think you are, rather than what you are. You have to have a sense of what you are as you're playing what people think you are.

Never make a promise - you may have to keep it.

If movies have to satisfy every possible quadrant before they're even made, they're dull. You only get great things when people overreach themselves.

I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing.