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

Making a movie is like a stagecoach ride through the Old West: at first you wish for a pleasant trip, and after a while you just hope you reach your destination.

I've always been very hopeful which I guess isn't strange coming from me. I don't want to call myself an optimist. I want to say that I've always been full of hope. I've never lost that. I have a lot of hope for this country and for the entire world. . .

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.

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.

I simply adore 'The Simpsons.' I go to bed in a 'Simpsons' T-shirt.