To be really artful, though, you have to be subjective and so singular.

I want to turn my attention to movies about love relationships. Exploring the female psyche - there ought to be some interesting discoveries there. Love stories. If you do it right, people want to hear romantic dialog.

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.

I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

Now it really is, believe it or not, 90% of the films are green lit, not by the studio heads, but by the marketing department.

If you're gonna be a failure, at least be one at something you enjoy.