I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project.

You are what you leave behind.

I have made a lot of career mistakes, a lot and I have made a lot of personal ones too!

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

Most of the films I myself like don't do very well. Every director, he has a choice, whether to go for subtlety and try to articulate every minute detail, or to go for the broad strokes and hope that the people will fill in between the lines. I tend to go for the broader strokes.

I've kind of fashioned my life after a Slinky. Bend me in a million shapes, and eventually I'll spring back to what I originally was.

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