Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates.

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.

Movies which set out to be 'commercial' usually have an artificial look about them-a certain waxlike quality. They allow for no failure, no moment of mistake.

Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't.

In life, we all learn from everyone. But if you like and admire someone tremendously, perhaps because they think the way you do, or like the way you think, then inevitably you do.

In life, we all learn from everyone.

Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans.