Sometimes I might feel like [a movie] is kind of a weird idea and if I'm going to get enough money to execute it properly I've got to get somebody in it that is going to justify the expense.

I guess I just look at talent as a very subjective thing. I mean, if you never tried playing an oboe, how do you know you're not the most talented oboe player ever? The point is that if you don't love it, then it doesn't matter.

I find myself in situations a lot where I have to say to someone, "This can be better," and it's hard to say that.

But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.

The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do.

I'm not going to spend two years of my life on something that I'm not excited about.

My working life is me doing what I want to do. This is that. I've made movies that people don't go to see.