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

My problem is I'm like a junkie. I want a good movie fix, and I never get that fix.

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

I'm overwhelmed by writers. Most people aren't impressed by writers, but if you can draw a cartoon or a picture, they think you're magic.

Reality and fantasy, we need both of those to survive. If we don't have fantasy, dreams and all of those things, what's the point of carrying on? And you need to watch out for reality because buses come.

I've always sworn that not having enough money has saved me from mediocrity.

Writers do the self-censoring before they even get to the studio executive, because they know the film will not run that gauntlet. They, because they want to get their films made, they censor it.