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I'm amazed that movies ever get finished at all - much less come out good once in a while. It's an awful lot of work and it can go wrong a thousand different ways.

Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that.

Before, it was just about making the films - and now it's releasing them. Which is a steep learning curve.

Movies are great fun and wonderful when they're good. But you never get to see them till six months after they're finished. So you never get a sense of whether they're really well liked or how good they are. And you don't really know what the finished product is going to be like, because it's a director's medium.

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

It takes a long time to get a film made.

The great thing about film is you start and finish. It's a journey that lasts so long, TV lasts a long time.

Movies are not finished. They are abandoned. A movie is never finished.

The average movie-goer in this country sees six films in a year. That's one every two months. What the studios are trying to do is make sure it's their movie.

When a movie is about to come out on its initial debut, there are a lot of people involved - the financiers, the studio and the producers and also, many times, the foreign distributors. So it is a time of tremendous pressure and uncertainty.