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I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.

Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life.

The budgets are much higher now, it costs more to make a movie and the kids that go to see them are into instant gratification. They want things bigger and bigger. I don't make those kind of movies. I make movies about relationships.

If you wait until the right time to have a child you'll die childless, and I think film making is very much the same thing. You just have to take the plunge and just start shooting something even if it's bad.

This is fundamentally true of the media business, the rigmarole you go through while trying to make 25 movies while not seeing your kids.

We need children to play the parts in movies. I'm just glad it's not my kids.

I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.

Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible.

The more people involved in making a movie, the worse it is, generally.

Making movies is both entirely ludicrous and incredibly hard. It's a preposterous way to spend your time. You give up a lot for the privilege of doing it, and one of the things you get are relationships of immense trust that you see forged in situations of immense stress.