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Failure worries me; nobody wants to fail. There is a fear that one day, films will not come my way, or if someone doesn't watch your film, that is a worrying point. It is unpredictable in the industry.

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

If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you should not necessarily read the book to see the film. If you do need that, then that means that it's a failure. That is what I think.

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.

Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.

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

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

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.