I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

I tend to be what I would call more progressive than conservative, but I think either extreme is excessive.

There isn't any question that Hollywood is profit driven. Anybody that thinks it isn't is a fool. It's a business. Hollywood was never philanthropy. The only purpose it had was making money; the only purpose it still has is to make money.

One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.

The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.

I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people.

I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.