It's a passion when you're doing it for other people and you're doing it for the people around you making the film and the people who are going to see the film, and the giving. When you start thinking about you doing it for some sort of self-gain, then I think it becomes an obsession. It becomes a negative experience.

The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.

You're constantly changing man. But the film's not changing. The film stays the same. That's the beautiful aspect of it.

All my life I've always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.

Know what it is the emotional statement to convey, and use taste and judgement to help the actors give their best possible performance.

Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War and Peace' in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling.