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.

I think there are only two times that I've ever ended up paying somebody their quote. Like what they actually were worth in the marketplace.

I always have a plan, but then I'm always ready to throw the plan out, and everyone's ready to make a radical left turn if necessary.

Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is so huge there. It will be a while before bigger movies go out in all formats; in five years, everything will.

If you're a painter and you want people to know who you are and recognize your work, you've got to build some long-term value.

Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.

I was lucky that I was getting exposed to a lot of different kinds of films, and I was liking them all. So it seemed logical to me that you could - as in the style of the studio directors of the 30s and 40s - jump from one genre to the next, with the same satisfaction.