As a filmmaker, you are going to manipulate the character as you need to make the scenes work.

In an ideal world the script is written lean and tight and therefore there are no scenes left on the cuttring room floor and therefore no extended edition.

I think there's still a little bit of that 9 year-old in me and I'm pretty happy.

As a filmmaker, you are going to manipulate the character as you need to make the scenes work.

To me, fantasy should be as real as possible. I don't buy into the notion that because it's fantastic, it should be unrealistic, because I think you have to have a sense of believing the world that you're going into.

He who must search a haystack for a needle is likely to end up with the attitude that the needle is not worth the search.

A pregnant woman is like a beautiful flowering tree, but take care when it comes time for the harvest that you do not shake or bruise the tree, for in doing so, you may harm both the tree and its fruit.