Never be put off by anything because failure teaches you something.

I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.

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

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.

My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place.

I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.

I'm not criticizing Hollywood because I work there, I partly live there. But I'm saying this is the way it is, commerce is taking over art. Commerce has become the most important thing in the film industry. Hollywood is an industry, it's not an art form, therefore they have to address the bottom line. But in a way it's sad when you get a remake, isn't it?