In the land of ideas, you are always renting.

There's a difference between failures and things that are bad.

That's why my attitude, even on my larger-scale movies, is to make them cheap. The less these things cost, the better for everybody.

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.

It's a weird thing to say, but it would appear to me axiomatic that if you understood fully what I was doing and appreciated it, you would like it.

When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

I guess why the Ocean's films are hard for me is because on the one hand you have to make sure the performances are there, but on the other hand it's a film that demands, to my mind, a very layered and complex visual scheme. That takes a lot of time to figure out.