To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally.

The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.

As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.

Audiences arent fools - their judgement really is important. And the true heroes of films are the investors. They take the risk, after all.

To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally.

It never crossed my mind to make a film about Muhammad Ali or the Queen or any of them! They just come out of the blue.

I teach film directing, inasmuch as you can. Its not really possible to teach film direction, but I sit there as a sort of testimony of experience and know-how, I suppose.