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I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do.

In my early days, I didn't know what a good film or a bad film was, and I was trying to make some money. As it happens I was lucky. I made some good films.

For a film to be made is a small miracle. And sometimes it's a large one.

Film-making was not at all what I had expected.

And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don't believe that.

When you see a finished film, it's very rare that it exceeds your expectations.

There was one film that I really wanted. This was a long time ago; it was a film called 'Fracture.' Ryan Gosling ended up doing it with Anthony Hopkins. It wasn't a giant box-office success, but I really enjoyed the script, and I enjoyed the character. I got pretty close and was kind of disappointed it didn't go my way.

I've been lucky enough to work with some great directors, and I don't want to throw that away by doing one big horrible big budget film.

It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.