I have created the life that I live... therefore I can create the life that I want.
I love the gangster genre, but how many gangster movies are there? If I get a good gangster movie script, I'll do it.
The key to the success of any producer is to have a great team around.
On an animated movie, I'm learning as I go. There are so many details in animation. Doing the voices was the easy-part. Doing live-action, you have to be on the set, every day.
It's a business of relationships. I mean that's exactly what Hollywood is to me, and I'm lucky enough to work with the same people over and over again.
Producing, for me anyway, it's coming up with material. It's sitting down with you know the likes of Martin Scorsese, Johnny Depp, Michael Mann and talking about a movie and really creating something from nothing.
I love film and I love the film business. And I don't think there's any better way, with my personality, than being a producer which is a little bit of a control freak.
It [moviemaking] is all a relationship business. It's a personal business. It's all personal relationships, if you're lucky enough to build on one to the other.
I've never tried to make a movie to pay an overhead. We're in a very creative business, and I want to make movies because I enjoy that movie or that material.
Every film takes on its own life. I find it very interesting to show an audience some part of history that maybe they don't know.
It [moviemaking] is not really done on a yearly basis. It's about how the material, and when the material comes in. If you develop your material and the script comes in great and you can attach a director and a cast and go off and make it, then I could make, I don't know, six [movies] a year. Or I could make one. It really depends.
I don't like making a film and having the actors in character too much in magazines and on the net and everything else. Because you want to keep something back.
I'm really a one-man band.
When you're developing a story, for me anyway, it's all so important to get the script right, especially when you're telling the story of an icon. You've got to get it right. Otherwise, you'll get killed by critics and fans.
