I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to start making and throwing bombs. I thought I was probably a better cartoonist than a bomb maker.

Now, anybody can make a movie, and I don't see that many great movies, because I think there's only a limited amount of talent out there.

The success of the Hollywood marketing machine is to limit what we see. Not just to limit what we can see, but also to limit our expectations - to limit what we want to see.

I'm more prone to anarchy than I am to control - even though I'm a film director.

There was a perverse side of me, with things like Van Helsing coming out. I didn't want to go down that route.

I have always got medicine I want to give to people.

Invariably, what I'm trying to do is more ambitious than the budget, but we manage to do it somehow.