When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.

One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.

I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that's a chapter.

In the whole history of movies, there has been nothing like Kubrick's vision. It was a vision of hope and wonder, of grace and of mystery, of humour and contradictions. It was a gift to us, and now it's a legacy.

It starts with the writer-it's a familiar dictum, but somehow it keeps getting forgotten along the way. No film-maker, irrespective of his electronic bag of tricks, can ever afford to forget his commitment to the written word.

Even though I get older, what I do never gets old, and that's what I think keeps me hungry.

I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.