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Don't forget, I've been fired by studios; I'm not the studio's guy. I'm a guy who can work with studios, but if you ask any studio, I stand up to these people.

If I wasn't the head of a studio, who would talk to me?

Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think about how music is made. I never thought I would actually call him my boss, let alone meet Mick Jagger or have any reason to say my name in the same sentence as his.

Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.

I've always maintained my name will not define my films, my films will define my name. But I wish I was called Steve, or something else.

Studio people are idiots. Until they see someone else doing it and make a success of it, they don't open their minds. Most of them are idiots.

Dore Schary was then head of the studio and he wanted to change my name.

I'm still trying to get over the fact that my name is being mentioned with people like Brad Pitt.

I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.