Am I allowed to say I really wanted this? This is fantastic.

You never really know how good of a leader you are until there is something there is lead us to, toward or through or to overcome.

Even if I'd had a really happy relationship with my father and there was no emotional hiatus for a decade and a half, I probably would still have made some of the same choices for movies that I've made.

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

It's funny, you make friends and you lose friends when you're making a movie.

I basically took something that was extremely erotic and very intentional, and I reduced it to a simple kiss. I got a lot of criticism for that.

I get very, very anxious on the set. I have a thousand ideas and I don't censor myself. I wind up cutting some of them out in the editing room... I shoot [needless footage] and then don't use later on in the process.