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I have worked on very good movies that have been buried, and I've worked on some resounding mediocrities that have been paraded through the marketplace like they were masterpieces.

Every movie that I've had to really knock down the door for has been an enormous success for me. Not just like a financial success but a real personal success.

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.

For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.

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.

I've done a lot of films that have become iconic, not necessarily because of me.

I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.

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

Films are amazing. To be a part of a movie is the greatest. It's so historic and exciting.

Every film that I have done has a special place in my heart.