You need somebody to have the idea, you need somebody who can deal with the studio and the normal things, but it's too different of a credit. That credit is usually given to the executive producer. It's not the producer.

The average film has eight or ten producers on it. That is just in a world that would be unthinkable to me, because to me, to really be a producer of a film, you have to be a line producer.

It's so dense, every single image has so many things going on.

It's easy to be a backseat driver. It's even easier to be a backseat driver when you're not even in the same car.

There's so many people that are interested in film and especially in terms of the technology side of film, that suddenly the fruits of everybody's labor is really starting to manifest itself all across the planet.

You have to be producing to be able to be called a producer.

Nobody sets out to make a bad film, but so many of those compromises are made and often they're made because of vanity, pride and ego.