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I think making a film that you think is good and you believe in is going to be difficult forever.

I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.

You hear again and again that audiences want to see movies that are different, and critics say we make the same thing again and again in Hollywood, then you go and make something different, and you get kicked in the gut for it.

A film adaptation is, I hope, the director's version. A new creation.

I've never made any film that I wouldn't go back and re-edit.

Well, there are three different processes of making a film, of course. They're sort of re-written three times. You write it to start with, and then you shoot it and you re-write it while shooting and you sort of re-write it as you edit.

If you stay true to your ideas, film-making becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process.

I think the thing about film is, as it gets proved by a lot of young filmmakers now, that the medium will just go on reinventing itself, and so you just hope to be a part of that and not a part of some kind of endless regurgitation or 'Here I am doing what you know I do' kind of thing.