I'm very competitive. I just go with what engages or fascinates me in my work and that's it. I have no definition; I just love to do it.

Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.

Everyone sniggered because I was going to do a sandal and toga movie. But I knew exactly how to do it and I know how to make Robin Hood.

Scaring someone's the hardest thing to do, and that's why most of scary movies are not scary. They're sick, but not scary. There's a lot of sickness out there, of people who then sit there and watch it, which I think is absolutely dismaying.

In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture.

Some actors - you work with them once and don't even think about working with them again.

When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year.