A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.

I'll be vilified if I shoot a film in Toronto for New York. And rightfully so!

When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instrument. But it's all degraded since then. I do not know what kind of nation we are that is cutting art, music, and gym out of the public-school curriculum.

I don't like to use the word 'remake', I think reinterpretation is a better word. It's just a matter of respecting the source, and then trying to make your own film, and trying not to be inhibited by being so beholden to every single thing... We respect the source, but we make changes to it.

Everybody does what they want to do for their own specific reasons.

Our greatness, our talent has never been the question. It's been a matter of grappling for control over what we do.

I like to work with the same people when I can, and you want to get people with the same interests that you have, and the same aesthetic.