And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.

Most of my presumptions about a production are usually wrong.

I would love to do a musical. I would love that. I would have to find the right book, the right story, but some day I'm going to make one. I would really like to go off and direct a musical. That's what I would really like to do when I grow up.

All through my career I've done what I can to discover new talent and give them a start.

You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change; you change.

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

The turning point in my career was Jaws. It was a turning point because I was a director-for-hire before Jaws and because it was such a big hit I could do any movie I wanted and Hollywood just wrote me a cheque.