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The average movie-goer in this country sees six films in a year. That's one every two months. What the studios are trying to do is make sure it's their movie.

The idea for any film is always going to be surprising or unusual.

I'm amazed that movies ever get finished at all - much less come out good once in a while. It's an awful lot of work and it can go wrong a thousand different ways.

In my experience, sometimes a movie just hits at the wrong time, gets the wrong press, or gets the wrong representation, and it gets misunderstood.

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.

It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.

People are mistaken to view cinema as some sort of gimmick. It's very much ingrained in the ways in which we understand each other.

The thing with film is that it's so wide-reaching compared to comedy. When I release my comedy special, half a million people will see it. If I release a movie, five to ten million people will see it.

I'm an optimist. I hope if a movie's good that it will be a success, but as we know, that's not always true, just because of popular taste, advertising, distribution patterns - there's lots of reasons.