There’s an abundance of exposure when you start working in American films. Inevitably you become a brand and that has to be controlled.
If you look round Hollywood there’s no end of white smiles and six packs. Long lines of beautiful people lining up to be incredible on film.
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
Life is very, very complicated and so films should be allowed to be too.
The secret to film is that it’s an illusion.
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
Some films are slices of life. Mine are slices of cake.
It is not reality that matters in a film but what the imagination can make of it.
I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.
I can’t think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.
I always figured that once I wrapped a film, then anything beyond that is none of my business. If I can avoid seeing the final product, then all I have in my head is feeling good about the experience.
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.