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A lot of films come out before they're finished.

I feel like I'm still learning a lot. I think there's a tendency for people who are just doing their first couple of films that I see now where they seem to be really resentful of the technical limitations that come along with filmmaking.

I had a pretty steep learning curve in film - as I'm still learning.

Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.

The key thing is that you start every film from sort of a blank page, almost like you discover it like a child discovers a new world.

Making a film, every film, is a big gamble, large or small. The more that you do it, the more you're aware of that.

The film business has changed hugely. You seem to spend about 30 per cent of the time producing the films and 70 per cent talking about it.

The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.

But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.

And it was out in the theaters in two weeks. This is not, 'We're going to develop twenty-five and maybe one's going to get made,' so the first three things I wrote got up on the screen and, good, bad or indifferent, I got to see them on their feet.