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I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like.

I feel like every time I take on a movie, it's important that the possibility of failure exists, and of the unknown, because it's a challenge to do something I haven't done before and something I have to try to work out.

I think a film is a failure if it doesn't have an emotional effect. That's the film's failure. Not if it doesn't deliver a message, but if it doesn't have emotional effect or visceral effect.

If a film is not a success, then that's just the way things are. Nothing I can do can make a difference. I have stopped worrying about it.

I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.

I like movies about failing.

Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.

So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.