The moment you have kids, you are prey to judgment, but you also become a judge. You find yourself going, "Can you believe what she did with such-and-such?" at school.

I've made movies that cost less than one car chase. But that's part of the pleasure of doing it, pushing yourself in new directions.

Kevin and Annette... I wanted them to do it together. They clearly wanted to work with each other.

You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.

One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.