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I always believed that you can make challenging films, but they should be fiscally responsible.

My taste in films doesn't lead financers to think they are going to make a zillion dollars.

Now, more then ever, we have the ability to make films for almost nothing and that's broken down all barriers of entry. I think it's a new golden age of film-making. With that, there needs to be the ability to recoup investment dollars, people need to make money.

There's always gonna be people with a lot of money making film, and the goal is to make profit and carry on. It is a business. The goal is to make a living doing it and to be comfortable.

That's one of the benefits of working on big budget films. You work with people who have a lot of experience and you get to learn a lot.

First of all, what in this world does not revolve around money? But money is a big part of film, unlike a lot of other art forms.

I'm not interested in making a $60-million studio film with a bunch of 24-year-olds telling me what to do.

Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.

We've gotten to a point where it costs so much money to make a movie that directors and filmmakers feel they have to make sure that everybody gets it. And that's an unfortunate development, I think, in a lot of narratives floating around in the film industry.