I'd love to build a company that will continue to make movies well beyond me someday. And I'd like to help start something great, even investing in it myself.

I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.

I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.

Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.

He never gave up. And he does that for us

I think producers are more interested in backing concepts than directors and writers. I don't think that's the right way of making a decision about whether you're going to back a film or not.

I've got a lot of examples about moments where I thought something would work on film and it didn't work, but I never came to that decision with the film half shot, where I was stuck on a runaway train and couldn't jump off. On those occasions where I have admitted defeat, that this is not going to work, I haven't embarked on that project and made that movie.