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You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.

I wanted to make people feel the same way I feel when I see a good movie.

I'm used to my films having little effect on making the world a better place.

Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.

I'd rather not make films than make bad ones.

I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, 'I wish more people saw that' - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.

There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out.

Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies.

I can understand the validity of showing people the ugliness of the world, but I also think there is a place for movies to leave people with a sense of hope.

Making movies has become such a golden ring, and it's all such a big business, that the rewards system has gotten totally out of whack. Suddenly, you're treated in a manner befitting someone who is actually an important person.