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I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.

I had a whole bunch of very successful movies. I have worked with some incredible people - incredible.

I was slightly disheartened when three of my films didn't work at the box-office. But the silver lining is that people did appreciate my work in those films. Had my performance gone unnoticed, I would've been in big trouble then.

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.

Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don't come out-but I've gotten to work with really good story editors and stuff like that.

At the end of the day, it is about working in a good film. It's the films that you leave behind that matter.

I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good.

I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.

I don't think a lot of really good films get seen.