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I think producers are more interested in backing concepts than directors and writers. I don't think that's the right way of making a decision about whether you're going to back a film or not.

Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some.

I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.

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

You look back on films sometimes and if they have not been as all-out successful as you anticipated you try to find reasons why maybe it didn't come off for audiences as well as you would have liked.

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.

Nobody's ever made a film in the history of cinema where they weren't expecting some return on their dough.

I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.

I regard remaking a film as creating something again.