I am a very impatient director.

All I have to do is pose for a picture and I'm getting married to the person standing next to me.

I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all.

When I don't have a movie, I don't take a job just for the sake of working. I just sit it out until I find something I'm passionate about.

I think every film I make that puts characters in jeopardy is me purging my own fears, sadly only to re-engage with them shortly after the release of the picture. I'll never make enough films to purge them all.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie in China.