People can relate to horses. Horses, I think, are basically in our genetic history. Horses were part of our culture, part of our collective society, for hundreds of years, and so, the horse is one of the most familiar animals to people of any race or culture or country.

Money to me is not a factor in my life.

You can't start a movie by having the attitude that the script is finished, because if you think the script is finished, your movie is finished before the first day of shooting.

When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself.

Steve Jobs was the greatest inventor since Thomas Edison. He put the world at our fingertips.

Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to direct me.

I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel.