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

I have one life. I am a certain age. I'm married to one person. I have a certain number of children. I won't have another life other than that, but I do have many lives through the films.

Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.

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.

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

Obviously its a good feeling to know that something you've done has lasted.

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