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I just love good movies. And not every movie you're going to end up in is always going to turn out right, but at least walk into it with the right intention.

Every time you do something, people are going to like it, people are going to hate it. You tend to make the movies on the basis you are making them for the people who are going to like them and not worrying too much about people who don't like them.

Many times when you make a movie, it feels like your biggest mistake. But even if a film isn't a hit, you shouldn't view it as a mistake.

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.

Usually when I am in a movie that is about to come out, if people don't love it, that is fine - I can handle it.

I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.

I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people feel ambivalent about.

I have a very simple definition of a good movie: a good movie makes you forget you're watching a movie.

I can't make a choice to do a movie because people will go see it. People look at what a movie becomes and decide if they'll see it.