And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head.

It's the best of the best. No film can hope to top it(Kubrick's 2001).

I spend a lot of my time just developing material; or the company does. That material can come from a book, can come from a newspaper, can come from a discussion and sometimes it can come from a script that got passed over and is floating around.

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

Audiences are less intrigued, honestly, by battle. They're more intrigued by human relations. If you're making a film about the trappings of the period, and you're forgetting that human relationships are the most engaging part of the storytelling process, then you're in trouble.

I love different themes, different venues, different movies. I love to jump about and tackle different subjects. I have no intellectual master plan.

If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.