I like to know where I am. I don't like the kind of cutting where you don't know where you are.

I'm not a snob. If I feel like there's a star that's the best person for that role, then that's who I get.

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.

I come from a generation that was surrounded by popular music, but I don't know if anybody's ever going to move the ball forward as far and as fast as the Beatles did.

Anytime you've got something that can take you into the political realm then you've opened up the conversation a lot.

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

I'm in the process of working out an arrangement to make some very, very, very small films in the midst of all these films and maybe that will help. But you get tired of talking. You just want to do it.