I have made almost as many films in England as I have in America. I will come back to England again and again.

I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.

There are so many rumours about so many of us in the public eye. Sometimes it's too hard to deny what is not true.

This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we're not satisfied just watching television, we want to star in our own TV shows. We want you to discover us and put us in your own TV show, and we want television to be about us, finally.

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

I was fifteen, or sixteen. I was in high school. I was spending a summer in California with my second cousins. And I wanted to be a director really bad. I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

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