A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing.

When you shoot a musical, you're shooting to lipsynch tracks, so we had to figure out our choreography and work out what we wanted to do with each number before we did it.

In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.

It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films like a product.

I think I've done pretty well. I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards, so I don't have any complaints.

Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.

I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake?