I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there.

I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting.

We make too much of the good and too much of the bad.

The Oscar for the films, it'd be nice. But I don't make those kind of films, and I don't think that will ever happen.

Titanic I thought was the most dreadful piece of work I've ever seen in my entire life. Another film that I think is equally bad was American Beauty. So badly acted and directed. But people like that.

I want to see something that I've never seen before, so how can I tell that actor what that is? I'm not trying to construct a document or situation that is what I want, because what I want is something new to me.

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.