The more money you have to work with, the more people you have to deal with that you probably don't want to be spending time dealing with.

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

Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe its a different one. The old one got fired.

I like being a patron of things, I like patronizing things. And if it's not going to be people, I'll patronize a festival.

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

My strength, if it's anything, is that I can lure some big-name actors in. That's probably the strength of almost any director now. On your own, as a director, you've only got so much weight. James Cameron, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Michael Bay... that's about it. Everybody else depends on the star power that they can draw.

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