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As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making.

I want to make films that cater to the world audiences.

I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

I'm really drawn to European films.

When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.

When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.

Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.

You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible.

A film has to be for commercial success as well as earn you respect as an artist. You don't want to do only things that are designed to run commercially, and neither do you want to do things that get acclaim but don't run.