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When you make a movie, you don't know how it'll turn out. You can only guess.

I think filmmaking is a gamble anyway, right? You never know the results from the start.

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.

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.

You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.

I guess, you make a big studio film, you spend a lot of money on it and you hope people go see it. It's really risky.

You never know how films are going to do and it is daunting if I think about it.

I've learned that you can never predict what will happen to a film. You can never predict if people will love it, if they'll hate it. It's an act of ego if you're hoping for everyone to love the film and tell you how great you are.

When you go into a film, you read it, and something clicks for you, and you like it, and you sign on for it; you go for it. You know that this is going to be a good film, and that is your best hope. Past that, it's a crap shoot - you roll the dice.