Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.

The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.

The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire.

We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.

It was always easy for me. I was born very rich and lucky.

Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.