Once I had a potentially heart attack-inducing eight double espressos in one day. I think my assistant secretly swaps my coffees for decaf as she doesn't want me to die of caffeine overdose.

In nature, if a cell gets too big, it divides. You can't come up with a set of rules that's going to work for 350 million people. You're just not.

I make every movie like it's the last one. "If this was the last movie, what decision would I make?" That's how I make my decisions.

To me the director’s job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.

I think '60s are appealing to creative people, because it seemed to be a time of endless possibilities, when the boundaries of what could be considered popular culture were being expanded almost by the week. It doesn't feel like that anymore. At times, I wish it were so. Radio is a perfect example; good God, I mean, back then the most interesting songs were also hits, and that's just not true anymore. It hasn't been true in a long time.

I had more fun making Traffic than either of the Ocean's films.

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.